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From: ART100@psuvm.psu.edu (Andy Tefft)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Do *NOT* reveal or mention "hacking" information
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Date: 16 Nov 90 03:15:57 GMT
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Software companies are awfully naieve if they expect a shrink-wrap
license to stop piracy, whether these licenses will ever be
enforceable or not. It is already illegal to distribute copyrighted
software, whether it is copied as-is or the copyright protection
is removed. THIS is where the software companies lose money,
NOT people making backups for their own use. The only thing
that enforcing shrink-wrap licenses will change is that it will
be illegal for someone to backup his own software, not really helping
software companies at all, unless you consider them all to be
money-grubbing scum who want to stick you for big bucks on backups.
Such an image is contradictory to their whining about how much
money they lose because of piracy.