Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!rice!uw-beaver!milton!iho From: iho@cac.washington.edu (Il Oh) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.games Subject: Re: SimEarth copy protection Message-ID: <15556@milton.u.washington.edu> Date: 31 Jan 91 22:31:00 GMT References: <18659@natinst.natinst.com> <1991Jan28.043033.11475@en.ecn.purdue.edu> <4f802472.20b6d@apollo.HP.COM> <43493@ut-emx.uucp> Sender: news@milton.u.washington.edu Reply-To: iho@akbar.UUCP (Il Oh) Organization: University of Washington, Seattle Lines: 19 awessels@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Allen Wessels) writes: >It is exactly for the reason that I've paid $40-50 for my games that I am >profoundly uninterested in paying any more for them in time wasted on idiotic >CP schemes. The removal of such schemes by the legitamate purchasers of >software has nothing to do with the manufacturer's copyrights. I've already >PAID them for the right to use the software. Why should _I_ have to be >inconvenienced because someone else pirates their software? I disagree. Without commiting myself to either side of this argument, I'd like to point out that most license agreements or copyright notices explicitly prohibit reverse engineering, decompiling, disassembling, or modifying of the program in question. I'm not making a moral judgment either way, merely pointing out the legal language used. -- "And now, adding color | Il Hwan Oh a group of anonymous, Latin-American | University of Washington, Tacoma meat-packing glitterati" | iho@cac.washington.edu -- Pink Floyd, Final Cut |