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From: magik@chinet.UUCP (Ben Liberman)
Newsgroups: net.micro
Subject: Re: Software protection; one more time
Message-ID: <246@chinet.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 12-Dec-85 00:56:35 EST
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Posted: Thu Dec 12 00:56:35 1985
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In article <139@duvel.UUCP> you write:
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>Last summer there was a lot of discussion concerning software protection.
>I seem to recall that a lot of people advocated that software should be
>treated just like a book. Therefore, it shouldn't be used on two different
>places in the same time period.
>
And then you follow with some questions that are the logical conclusions of 
following out the book analogy BUT software is not in any sense like a book.
I think we might get farther by looking at books the way software IS and see
how our thinking about books would have to change.  This is really a new beast
and is probably more closely related to some of the issues in music rights.

What would books be like if we could reproduce them in our home by dropping 
them in the slot of some machine that we were already using around the home or
workplace?  How would the publishing industry change?  (they would probably go
for some legislative remedy though reality doesn't obey the law....I think it
works much better the other way around :-)

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