Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 19:54:27 07/21/98
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On July 20, 1998 at 20:25:14, Joe McCarron wrote: >On July 20, 1998 at 05:23:37, Georg Langrath wrote: > >>When reading messages about piracy you can get the impression that most people >>writng here are saints. I myself have always been propagating for copy protect.. >>Why? Because I know myself. If I got an offer from a friend to copy his >>Chessmaster 5500, I had made that copy if possible. My strength of character is >>not better than so. I hope that I am not the only sinner in this forum. >> >>Georg > >I guess the thing is the lines aren't always clear. Of course many software >makers would like to tell you its clear and that whatever they decide to tell >you inside the box is trhe law. Of course its not. If they say you can only >install the software on one pc etc. there seems to be a progression. Say you >open up software and when you instll it it says you can only instll it on one >pc. Do you? >1)also install it on your laptop many software packages explicitly allow this, with the "single use" doctrine in the license agreement that says "you may install this software on multiple machines that you use, so long as only one copy of the software is in use at any one time. They generally quote the "library book" analogy at this point" The idea is that when I am running the software on my laptop, I'm probably not running it on my office machine. Or if I have an office machine, laptop *and* computer at home, if I am running it on one, then I am probably not in front of the other machines using it there too. >2)allow family members in your household to install it on their pc only if allowed under (1) above, and so long as I am the primary user of the software at home. Otherwise I buy a copy for home myself, as I did for Microsoft office (for my wife) Wordperfect (wife again) and so forth. My gateway came with a copy of Myst. My daughter liked the game and wanted a copy for her machine (she lives about 20 miles from me). I bought here a copy at CompUSA and she is now playing with it on her machine. I still have my copy for my machine. Myst has two players, on two machines, and they were paid for *both* copies. >3)also allow family members not in your household see above. I don't... >4)give to friends *NEVER* >5)e-mail it to acquaintances from the internet *NEVER* >6) sell copies of it > *NEVER* >I think most people I know are in the middle.
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