> > 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?! :)
Okay , so they wearout just like disks wear out :) (But good cross refer HEEHEHEHEHE) > > 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. Thats find , but remeber that you MIGHT be prosicuted for doing so , and it will happen quicker if you sell/give copies to anyone else. > 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. But then they should take ever care in producing a product that can only be damage by neglect > > 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? ;-) Accelerator card's don;t (To my knowledege) contain Hardware sprites or scrolling , but they do contain BLIT functions which 'COULD' used as sprites by the USER, i.e not the primary purpose that it was designed for! > Paul > -- > Thought for the day: > Book (n): a utensil used to pass time while waiting > for the TV repairman. <OffSubject> (stolen from someone without there consent OOPS) Where do you keep getting these signtures from? And can anyone point me towards a VAST quantity of them </OffSubject> (unstolen from someone without there consent OOPS) Chris
