Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!samsung!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!ucsd!nosc!cod!bmarsh From: bmarsh@cod.NOSC.MIL (William C. Marsh) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Subject: Re: Why do people pirate software? Message-ID: <2054@cod.NOSC.MIL> Date: 13 Aug 90 19:56:21 GMT References: <1462fullerr@yvax.byu.edu> <2847@bruce.cs.monash.OZ.AU> <6092@milton.u.washingto <991@ncrwat.Waterloo.NCR.COM> Reply-To: bmarsh@cod.nosc.mil.UUCP (William C. Marsh) Organization: Naval Ocean Systems Center, San Diego Lines: 17 In article <991@ncrwat.Waterloo.NCR.COM> dgs@swdev.Waterloo.NCR.COM (David G. Schwartz) writes: >When you tape stuff with your VCR, you are in technical violation of >copyright laws, however most copyright holders turn a blind eye to >private, non-comercial due to the enforcement problem. Last I had heard, the airwaves are still public domain, so anything received from them is public domain, including satellite transmissions. That's why they decided to scramble the satellite channels, because then you had to buy a de-scrambler and pay for a password. Bill -- Bill Marsh, Naval Ocean Systems Center, San Diego, CA {arpa,mil}net: bmarsh@cod.nosc.mil uucp: {ihnp4,akgua,decvax,dcdwest,ucbvax}!sdcsvax!nosc!bmarsh "If everything seems to be coming your way, you're probably in the wrong lane."