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Subject: Re: So I contacted a lawyer today, Jeroen............

Author: Jeroen Noomen

Date: 01:17:48 05/04/02

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On May 03, 2002 at 20:45:56, James Robertson wrote:

Hi James,

Right, you have exactly my point. I have no objection whatsoever when users go
through the book and type lines from it in their own book. But hacking the code
and converting the whole book into someone's own format, that is what I want to
prevent.

Anyway, I am already convinced that I have to use some drastic things to prevent
it. A valuable lesson from all the discussions.

Jeroen


>So basically, if you paw through a book by hand and copy moves that's not
>illegal, but if you use some sort of program to convert the book to a new ?format
>it is.... That seems to make sense.
>
>I suppose the latter case is what Jeroen was worried about originally? Maybe the
>first (pawing through the book) isn't so great either, but I suppose its not
>much different from looking through a real book (one intended for people :) and
>using it to prepare openings.
>
>James
>



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