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From: jb10320@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Desdinova)
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Subject: Re: Rastan GS
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Date: 8 Oct 90 03:10:25 GMT
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In article <28560@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> fadden@cory.Berkeley.EDU writes:
>In article <7586@darkstar.ucsc.edu> unknown@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (The Unknown User) writes:
>>In article <9096@ucrmath.ucr.edu> rhyde@ucrmath.ucr.edu (randy hyde) writes:
>>>I do *NOT* equate "hacker" with "good programmer".
>>	Well then I presume you've not been in the computer hobbyist
>>"field" long enough.
>
>I don't believe I just read that.
>
>[stuff about "hacker" removed ... consult the Official Jargon file]
>
>>>BTW, "cracking" a game is definitely illegal based on current copyright laws.
>>	If I buy a piece of software, I can do anything with it. Or a book,
>>or a record, anything... Books are software for the mind, and records are
>>software for a record player... heh... 
>
>You are purchasing the media.  You are (in most cases) merely getting a
>license from the software company to run the software on your machine.
>Therefore you may mutilate the disk, but CANNOT alter the program.

   WRONG. Shrink-wrap liscencing is not enforceable under the federal Copyright
laws.  And modification of software which you have bought is 100% LEGAL as
long as the deviant copies are destroyed if a transfer of ownership.
Also, it is perfectly legal to modify software so as to obtain your legally
protected rights to have backup copies of the software.
I went through all this before with you folks, but it looks like I'll
have to post the copyright law here again for all to see.

>Modifying the words in a book or the music on a record really doesn't have
>much meaning.  However, I suggest you check out laws regarding "derivative
>works", and that you not listen to a word I'm saying since I'm not a lawyer.

   I'm trying NOT to listen to a word you're saying :-).  Really, you can
do anything you like to software you've bought so long as
1) you didn't sign a legal contract (shrink-wrap does not count)
2) you don't distribute copies

>>/             Apple II(GS) Forever!    unknown@ucscb.ucsc.edu               \
      Amen

>fadden@cory.berkeley.edu (Andy McFadden)
>..!ucbvax!cory!fadden


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