> And if the Copyright owner says DON'T BACKUP/COPY my stuff then don't , else
> you have just violated his/her rights , and as a USER you are not the OWNER!
And if the packaging says nothing?
> right to protect your purchases , but then we should all be making copies of
> our clothes (These do ware out / malfunction from time to time ) , Make
You have malfunctioning clothes?! :)
> then it must be legal !. Or maybe someone out there wants you all to think
> its legal?? ,
I don't know if it's legal or not. I suspect a reasonably good case could be
made in court. The short answer is that I personally don't care if it's legal
or
not - I *will* make a backup of software which I use, normally, because I
don't trust the drives in the SAM any further than I could juggle this
computer.
It's in the distributors interest for users to do this, if you think it through
- if
people have to return disks because they've become corrupted, even if you
charge for the re-distro cost (which isn't going to make you popular), you've
still got staff doing that when they could be more productive.
> Take Atari for instance , they stood by and watch every computer/console
> manufactor use the following with out any inclin of compaint ->
> 1) 9 Pin DWay
> 2) Hardware Scrolling
> 3) Hardware Sprites
> And then all of a sudon sued , Sega ,Nintendo , and a few others for
I'm bloody amazed they managed to win on points (2) and (3), to be perfectly
frank. Besides, if that's the case, why aren't Sega now suing every
accelerator card maker? ;-)
Paul
--
Thought for the day:
Book (n): a utensil used to pass time while waiting
for the TV repairman.
