At 1:05 pm +0100 20/4/99, Chris White wrote: >@ the end of the day is any of this really getting us anywhere
Correct. So when will you STOP perpetuating the thREAD?? >, some peeps >think its there right to BACKUP their software The law of England says you are *allowed* TO. It says so specifically. It says so explicitly. ON those grounds alone, you are *allowed* TO, in England. The act has been quoted already. What more do you want??! >, other believe that you have > broken BACKUPRIGHT law (read COPYRIGHT) as you have COPIED something with >out the CONSENT of the COPYRIGHT owner. People who believe that are just *wrong* in England. This can be proven by REFerence TO English law. COPYright law is NOT so simple as you're making OUT. It DOes NOT AUTOmatically give the author the right TO STOP people from making a BACKUP COPY - NOT IN all FORseeable circumstances, AT least. IF the law says someONe is legally allowed TO make a BACKUP COPY, THEN he DOesn't require the cONsent of the COPYright holder. The COPYright holder canNOT STOP people from making a BACKUP COPY. >For those that think they are doing nothing wrong then please send your Name >& Address to FAST or ELSPA and please forward me you Prision address so I >may keep you abreast of Sam News :) POW! STOP trying TO argue the law! The law is NOT ON your side!! Why DO you keep PUSHing this thREAD, when the law DEFines that you are wrong and I am right? Mutter, mutter, mutter, mutter, mutter. Andrew -- | Andrew Collier | email [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Talk sense to a | Part 2 NatSci | http://carou.sel.cam.ac.uk/ | fool and he +----------------+-----------------------------+ calls you foolish | Selwyn College Student Computer Support Team | -- Euripides
