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From: papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa)
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Subject: Re: Your Rights under es:
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Date: 10 Nov 90 06:56:28 GMT
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In article <1990Nov9.210351.23551@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> jb10320@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Desdinova) writes:
|  SOME PEOPLE OBVIOUSLY THINK WE LIVE IN THE UNITED SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLIC.
|This, this nation is the United States of America, and if there is one thing
|that is sacred above ALL ELSE is freedom of thought and freedom of information.
|There is NOTHING illegal about describing how to remove copy protection from
|programs.

Fine.

| The copyright law guarantees that posessors of software are entitled
|to make backup or archival copies of software.

The law grants you with one (1) backup copy of the software.

|If the process of making backups
|involves modifying the software, so be it.  That is protected.

B.S., dude. You have no such right from the copyright act.

|If the software is transferred to someone else, all derivatives and 
|modifications must be destroyed.

Fine, too.

|Ron, nothing personal, but you're entirely 100% wrong.

Nothing personal. You certainly are *NOT* 100% right :-) Get a lawyer.

-- Marco
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