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From: ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: "Look up a word in the manual" copy protection
Message-ID: <3470@well.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 1-Jul-87 21:16:50 EDT
Article-I.D.: well.3470
Posted: Wed Jul  1 21:16:50 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 4-Jul-87 03:16:42 EDT
References: <4807@sgi.SGI.COM> <6816@g.ms.uky.edu> <22328@sun.uucp> <594@madvax.UUCP>
Reply-To: ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab)
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Organization: Hole Earth 'Lectronic Loss (or words to that effect)
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Keywords: user frustration
Summary: Ack Phft!

In article <594@madvax.UUCP> richc@madvax.UUCP (Rich Commins) writes:
>In article <22328@sun.uucp>, cmcmanis%pepper@Sun.COM (Chuck McManis) writes:
>> In article <6816@g.ms.uky.edu> sean@ms.uky.csnet (Sean Casey) writes:
>> >After unwittingly purchasing my second piece of software with this most
>> 
>>> How hard is is really to look up a word? Is it harder or easier than
>>> sending a broken disk back to the manufacturer.
>
>	Has anyone ever used a xerox machine before?  All this does is make
>	the legal owner and the software pirate both look up the word in the
>	manual!  [ ... ]

	Ha!  Now the justice department has got you by the short ones.
Copying copyrighted computer software is still a nebulous issue, despite
what the Lotus legal department would have you believe.  However, Xeroxing a
copyrighted *book*, or, in this case, manual, is *very* illegal.  Not to
mention a b*tch to do.

	It ain't worth the immediate and potential long-term trouble (unless
it's an AtariSoft game :-) ).

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