Author: Bruce Moreland
Date: 11:32:09 04/08/01
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On April 08, 2001 at 12:59:42, John Dahlem wrote: >But is it even possible anymore to purchase these programs?? If not, what is >wrong with downloading them free? A couple of aspects to this: 1) The copyright on software does not expire at the point the software comes off the market. The copyright is held by the author and/or publishers. If you want legal copies of the software, the "proper" thing to do is to ask them. If someone else thinks that I am *legally* in error, please let me know. 2) I think that most of us understand what is copyrighted software. If someone posts a link to a place where you can download Chess Genius (any version), expect the post to get pulled. If a post is deleted by mistake, please feel free to argue that the owner of the page has the legal right to offer the software for download, and if we agree with you, you'll get an apology and be allowed to repost. Personally, I think that software piracy is wrong, and I don't do it. But regardless of how I feel about it, I think I have a responsibility to Steve and to ICD to discourage the posting of links to pirated software. The moderators are not paid by Steve, but we are under his auspices to some degree. If people post links to that stuff here, and we encourage it, and Steve does nothing to stop us from encourage it, and CCC becomes the place to go to find out about bootleg software, Steve might have some legal liability. So please obey the law here, and do not encourage others to break it. buce
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