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From: gwangung@milton.u.washington.edu (Just another theatre geek.....)
Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk
Subject: Re: Apple's right to stop traffic in Mac ROMS
Message-ID: <16866@milton.u.washington.edu>
Date: 21 Feb 91 06:52:50 GMT
References: <24928@netcom.COM>
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
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In article <24928@netcom.COM> rodent@netcom.COM (Ben Discoe) writes:
!I was shocked to hear from a mail-order house today that they can not sell
!me the Macintosh ROMS they have in stock because Apple has told them they
!can't.  Bizarrely, they CAN sell the ROMS as part of a package deal from
!another supplier, but they can't sell the ROMs by themselves.
!
!At first I thought this was totally ridiculous - if the mail order shop
!bought the ROMs, how could Apple's copyright stop the further traffic?
!This would be like Stephen King declaring that no bookstore can sell his
!books, effectively turning millions of books on shelved around the world
!into mulch.  This is ridiculous.

	Actually, the situation is more like Stephen King refusing book
dealers to sell earlier, abridged versions of, say, THE STAND.

	That is NOT ridiculous.



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Roger Tang, gwangung@milton.u.washington.edu
Middle-class weenie and art nerd