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From: kreme@isis.cs.du.edu (Finnegan's wake-up call)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Do *NOT* reveal or mention "hacking" information
Message-ID: <1990Nov14.055231.15728@isis.cs.du.edu>
Date: 14 Nov 90 05:52:31 GMT
References: <14087@arisia.Xerox.COM> <cbDZvQ200VpdI_aEdm@andrew.cmu.edu> <14445@smoke.brl.mil>
Reply-To: kreme@isis.UUCP (Finnegan's wake-up call)
Organization: Pseudo-Dragon Protection League
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In article <14445@smoke.brl.mil> gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn) writes:
>In article <cbDZvQ200VpdI_aEdm@andrew.cmu.edu> cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu (Charles William Swiger) writes:
>>But the net does not depend on commercial sites to such the extent as you
>>make it seem.
>
>On the otherhand, there ARE definitely guidelines for use of the Internet,
>and sites can and have lost access upon blatant violations of the rules.
>
>I have no idea whether or not abetting illegal activity would constitute
>a violation of the guidelines, but it wouldn't surprise me if it did.

..."It is not an infringement for the owner of a copy of a computer program
to make or authorize the making of another copy or adaptation of that program
provided:

1) that such a new copy or adaptation is created as an essential step in
the utilization of the computer program in conjunction with a machine and
that it is use in no other manner, or

2) that the new copy or adaptation is for archival purposes only and that all
archival copies are destroyed in the event that continued possesion of the
computer program ceases to be rightful."

United States Code title 17, subsection 117.

So what's illegal about deprotection?  Not a damn thing.


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