Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!snorkelwacker!apple!well!jef From: jef@well.UUCP (Jef Poskanzer) Newsgroups: comp.sources.d Subject: Re: Paying for Shareware (Was: Re: v09i070: newsclip 1.1...) Message-ID: <15530@well.UUCP> Date: 16 Jan 90 06:02:45 GMT References: <2930@netxcom.DHL.COM> Reply-To: Jef Poskanzer Organization: Paratheo-Anametamystikhood Of Eris Esoteric, Ada Lovelace Cabal Lines: 21 In the referenced message, ewiles@netxdev.UUCP (Edwin Wiles) wrote: } By analogy, consider the broadcasts of the National Football League } in the U.S.A. Each such broadcast, at some point in it, contains a } statement that you cannot rebroadcast, or otherwise use it without } permission to do so. I have no doubt that such a statement is legally } binding, and should I break it, I would find myself in court on the } "sharp end of the stick". Notice that I did not "request" that } broadcast, I merely had a receptor tuned to recieve it. It is still } not mine to do with as I wish. Yet Another Stupid Shareware Analogy. Does the N.F.L. require that viewers pay for these non-requested broadcasts? Hmmmm? Is there an epidemic of cluelessness going around? --- Jef Jef Poskanzer jef@well.sf.ca.us {ucbvax, apple, hplabs}!well!jef "In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience." -- Oscar Wilde