RE: [SWCollect] Buy 1 get 2

2002-09-18 Thread Dan Chisarick
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [SWCollect] Buy 1 get 2 Jim Leonard spake thusly into the ether: > >Adam Baratz wrote: >> >> > (Remember The Bilestoad?) >> >> No... please explain... > >The Bilestoad was an awesome Apple II game that was way ahead of

Re: [SWCollect] Buy 1 get 2

2002-09-18 Thread Lee K. Seitz
Jim Leonard spake thusly into the ether: > >Adam Baratz wrote: >> >> > (Remember The Bilestoad?) >> >> No... please explain... > >The Bilestoad was an awesome Apple II game that was way ahead of it's time in >terms of graphics, coding, and concept. You control a "cyber knight" as he >battles wi

Re: [SWCollect] Buy 1 get 2

2002-09-18 Thread Lee K. Seitz
C.E. Forman spake thusly into the ether: > >Has anyone here seen a legit copy [of Bilestoad] (even just a loose >disk)? This is one I suspect would command an astronomical price at >auction. I've never even found a pirate copy in all the disk lots >I've bought up over the years. I never even he

Re: [SWCollect] Buy 1 get 2

2002-09-18 Thread Pedro Quaresma
eeded our humanity." - Albert Einstein                               Para: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> A/C: Ref: cc: Assunto: Re: [SWCollect] Buy 1 get 2 "C.E. Forman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>     18-09-2002 13:36 Solicita-se resposta a swcollect > Le

Re: [SWCollect] Buy 1 get 2

2002-09-18 Thread C.E. Forman
> ..and one that was barely copy-protected. The protection was cracked fairly > early on and pirate copies ran rampant throughout the warez kiddies of the > time. As a result, only 5000 legitimate copies of the game were sold, so it > turned out to not be profitable for the developer and publish

Re: [SWCollect] Buy 1 get 2

2002-09-18 Thread C.E. Forman
> Legal notices are *meant* to be taken literally. And yes, unfortunately (for > this particular product) it is being resold illegally. The term "selling," in > the above only refers to selling copies, but the very first sentence ending in > "intended for the use of the original purchaser only"

Re: [SWCollect] Buy 1 get 2

2002-09-17 Thread Jim Leonard
Adam Baratz wrote: > > > (Remember The Bilestoad?) > > No... please explain... The Bilestoad was an awesome Apple II game that was way ahead of it's time in terms of graphics, coding, and concept. You control a "cyber knight" as he battles with another knight. The weapon is a battle axe, and

Re: [SWCollect] Buy 1 get 2

2002-09-17 Thread Adam Baratz
> (Remember The Bilestoad?) No... please explain... -Adam -- This message was sent to you because you are currently subscribed to the swcollect mailing list. To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of 'u

Re: [SWCollect] Buy 1 get 2

2002-09-17 Thread Jim Leonard
Edward Franks wrote: > > Of course, all of this is still being hashed out or has to be hashed > out in the court system. :sigh: Good thing we have some lawyers on the list, then. :-) (My father-in-law is also a lawyer, so I've got Fair Use nailed down in my brain) -- http://www.MobyG

Re: [SWCollect] Buy 1 get 2

2002-09-17 Thread Jim Leonard
"Lee K. Seitz" wrote: > > "The distribution and sale of this product are intended for > the use of the original purchaser only and for use only on the > computer system specified. Lawful users of this program are > hereby licensed only to read the program from its medium into

Re: [SWCollect] Buy 1 get 2

2002-09-17 Thread Edward Franks
On Tuesday, September 17, 2002, at 11:27 AM, Lee K. Seitz wrote: [Snip] > a) the thrift store I bought this game at was selling it to me > illegally. ("[...] selling [...] this product is a violation of > law.") Does this mean Ye Olde Infocomme Shoppe is into hard-core > piracy just by reselli

Re: [SWCollect] Buy 1 get 2

2002-09-17 Thread Lee K. Seitz
Dan Chisarick spake thusly into the ether: > >I'd say that legal ownership of the software has zero to do with >either the media OR the box. Take a non-game package like Photoshop. [snip] >Adobe's license agreement states that the >contents must be transferred in their entirety by the owner P

RE: [SWCollect] Buy 1 get 2

2002-09-17 Thread Dan Chisarick
conomically or politically feasible to pursue it.   Dan         -Original Message-From: MASTER [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Pedro QuaresmaSent: Tuesday, September 17, 2002 3:10 AMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: Re: [SWCollect] Buy 1 get 2>Heh, I love this group! Ditto! :)   >Or

Re: [SWCollect] Buy 1 get 2

2002-09-16 Thread Pedro Quaresma
>Heh, I love this group! Ditto! :)   >Or what if you have two sets of parts but only one set of disks, having lost the others?  Why would it be wrong to include one original disk and one copy per set?  >I'd consider doing this if it was a common game that wouldn't sell for much either way.  Bard