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Subject: Re: A hypothetical question...

Author: Ed Schröder

Date: 03:52:45 05/04/02

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On May 04, 2002 at 05:33:09, Steve Maughan wrote:

>Jeroen,
>
>>Besides, the matter I was discussing here in this forum had to do with hacking
>>the book (your point nr. 5 below). People had hacked the code in which the
>>Rebel book was written and converted it to their own format. And I find it
>>fully correct that something should be done about this.
>
>A hypothetical question - how would you feel if someone hacked your books, wrote
>a program that trawled the book comparing it to their own book, figuring out the
>unique lines and allowed their engine to search and come up with a considered
>response.  Is this legal?  Would you be happy about it?
>
>I should say that I have no intention of doing this!
>
>Regards,
>
>Steve

Hi Steve,

It's covered by the copyright notice, it's the first thing that you see on the
screen when the installation starts.

Ed

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