From: Chris White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > No , but its on the USERS head if they have been neglect with there > purchases, say you bought a book and you happened to spill coffee over it, > you should be able to restore from you backup, but you wouldn't as you have > insurence for this (I have) and this also includes (in my case) damage to > computer media. If you don't take care of stuff why should you beable to get > another free!
Books are different... With a book, you are buying the media, and a license to read the material on it. That is a single-user license (unless people read over your shoulder) with certain caveats (fair-use photo-copying; which is no greater than 15% of the material, IIRC). However, you can't get a book store to swap a damaged book for a new one; the book costs money. Now, if you had scanned in all the pages of the book -- as long as you kept it for yourself and didn't distribute it -- you could legally print your own copy and replace your damaged one with that one (although you'd have to keep the damaged one if you were being incredibly strict about it). Basically, when it comes down to it, the spirit of the law is that you can make copies for your own personal use. And that's the important bit. Simon Cooke (The views of this poster are his and his alone, and may or may not reflect the views of the Microsoft Corporation).
