Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!olivea!uunet!ogicse!hsdndev!husc6!hscfsas1.harvard.edu!kenh From: kenh@hscfsas1.harvard.edu (Ken Hancock) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.games Subject: Re: SimEarth copy protection Message-ID: <5596@husc6.harvard.edu> Date: 4 Feb 91 18:35:34 GMT References: <43493@ut-emx.uucp> <1991Jan31.181416.23441@cpsc.ucalgary.ca> Sender: news@husc6.harvard.edu Organization: Isle Systems - Waltham, MA Lines: 35 In article <1991Jan31.181416.23441@cpsc.ucalgary.ca> wieser@fsd.cpsc.ucalgary.ca (Bernhard Wieser) writes: > >Most software these days is sold with 'license'. What does this mean? >The company, through your payment of license fee, gives you the >right to use the software. Read your licensing agreements. By >removing protection, you might be violating the terms of your license. >License does not give ownership, it gives right of use provided you >follow conditions stated by said license. If you find the protection >irritating, you should have read the license first and not bought >the product. Give me a break. I've read some of these licensing agreements. Some of the worst I've found are: o You don't own the software, they do. o No guarantees at all. o You can't modify, decomile, nada. So, under these terms, if I paid $40, opened the package, put the disk in the drive, and it was a bad disk, the manufacturer could refuse to do anything under the "shrink wrap" license. And you're telling me that I'm then supposed to agree? Hah! I'll pay my money for the software, put it on my machine, and then do whatever I like to my copy. I see this as fair use, regarless of what it says on some envelope inside the box. Ken -- Ken Hancock | INTERNET: kenh@hscfsas1.harvard.edu Isle Systems | Compuserve: >INTERNET:kenh@hscfsas1.harvard.edu Macintosh Consulting | AOL: coming soon... | Disclaimer: My opinions are mine, | your opinions are yours. Simple, isn't it?