> Chris White wrote: > > your are not aloud to create a copy of anything , without the copyright > > owners permission. Having a backup of a disk thats not used for illegal > > purposes , is like have a gun and NEVER thinks of firing it (Pointless) > > Are you 100% sure about this? The +D interface on the Spectrum was fairly > well geared towards transferring tape based software to disk, and that > seemed to be acceptable. Is that any different from what is being done when > creating disk images?
Microdrive & disk drives for ZXS was 15 years ago. That time people didn't think like we do now. Making Microdrive is the same as making "disk image creator". You can use it to backup your own software (made by you). So making a floppy-to-image converter is legal, using it is legal too. You can use it on protected disks too. Chris White can use it to duplicate his own games :) It is still legal. The problem of copying protected disks is not a problem of that converter. Converter is surely legal, you simply cannot create illegal copies of anything. (The same as monitor: To have a monitor is legal, but if you throw it on somebody's head and kill him, this is illegal, not monitor itself.) The only I want to say is that if somebody makes and distributes a program which will convert protected disks to disk image and backwards, it is surely legal. I must mention this, since somebody wrote that the author of that converter should be liable for cash losses of software developers. A.K.
