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Subject: Re: Do I have a Right to a Backup Copy?

Author: David Rasmussen

Date: 04:26:41 09/22/02

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On September 21, 2002 at 23:04:05, John Merlino wrote:

>On September 21, 2002 at 21:13:37, Rick Terry wrote:
>
>>I am a Registered owner of Chessmaster 9000, I would like to make a backup copy
>>for personal use, is this legal? If so can someone send me a email on which
>>program to use to copy this CD? I am currently using easy CD Creator 5 Platonium
>>but it fails to copy a installable CD. Help please!
>
>This is a very sticky situation. You DO have a legal right to make a backup
>copy. Conversely, the program publishers have a right to (attempt to) prevent
>piracy, and this is usually done by adding copy protection to the CDs.
>

This sort of stuff is usually pretty easily circumvented by programs such as
clonecd and the like.

/David



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