Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!ucsd!qualcom.qualcomm.com!cancun.qualcomm.com!rdippold From: rdippold@cancun.qualcomm.com (Ron Dippold) Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: Any piracy statistics in the US ?? Message-ID: <1991Jun26.204259.21688@qualcomm.com> Date: 26 Jun 91 20:42:59 GMT References: <1991Jun24.205146.3372@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <1991Jun25.211142.514@kithrup.COM> Sender: news@qualcomm.com Organization: Qualcomm, Inc., San Diego, CA Lines: 18 Nntp-Posting-Host: cancun.qualcomm.com In article <1991Jun25.211142.514@kithrup.COM> sef@kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan) writes: >In article mathew@mantis.co.uk (Giving C News a *HUG*) writes: >>The "fine print" is not legally binding in the UK. I actually own the >>software I have bought, regardless of what any shrink-wrap license may say. > >You do? Does that mean you can go into business selling copies of whatever >software you've bought? > >Oh, so you *don't* own the software! No, no, no, he owns the software, however he does not own the right of reproduction of the software. He can do whatever he wants with the copy of the software that he bought as long as he doesn't break any laws. The UK respects our intellectual property laws, as we do theirs. Copying it and distributing it violates the copyright laws. -- Standard disclaimer applies, you legalistic hacks. | Ron Dippold