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From: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Silent Service
Message-ID: <1456@gryphon.CTS.COM>
Date: Sun, 6-Sep-87 18:16:35 EDT
Article-I.D.: gryphon.1456
Posted: Sun Sep  6 18:16:35 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 6-Sep-87 23:37:15 EDT
References: <8CRONEJP@UREGINA1> <153@jc3b21.UUCP> <2380@xanth.UUCP>
Reply-To: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton)
Organization: Trailing Edge Technology, Redondo Beach, CA
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Keywords: hypocracy silliness`

In article <2380@xanth.UUCP> kent@xanth.UUCP (Kent Paul Dolan) writes:
>In article <153@jc3b21.UUCP> fgd3@jc3b21.UUCP (Fabbian G. Dufoe) writes:
>>
>>     Jonathon Crone posted a long article complaining about the problems
>>caused by the copy protection on Silent Service (MicroProse).  He is
[...]
>>shouldn't be necessary.  But because of firms like MicroProse lots of
>>people who aren't pirates have to buy Marauder II.
>>
>>
>>--Fabbian Dufoe

>Now I'm a little hot.

I dont want to hear about your sex life.

> Marauder II claims to be a tool for legitimate disk
>backup.  Sorry, I just don't see _any_ reason to remove "keyword from manual"
>protection except piracy.  The folks that have been nice enough to remove
>disk drive homoginizer copy protection schemes in favor of keyword from manual
>schemes, to let you do your own backups and run from hard disks, have every
>reason to be furious (not to mention filing lawsuits for abetting of a felony)
>with the makers of Marauder II.  Sorry, but I have yet to see a keyword in
>manual scheme so tough that it wasn't worth typing in the words just to help
>keep the makers of a decent game in business long enough to produce their next
>game.
>
>
>Comments?

You bet.

My first comment is, Kent you silly person.

My second comment is, if I own a legitimate copy of a copyrighted work,
I cannot copy it. If its software I cant make a copy of it and give it
to a friend, if its a book, I cant xerox a chapter and give it to somebody,
or if we are talking about paintings, I cant reproduce them by taking a photo,
or it looks like i cant even sit in front of it with Dpaint and *copy* it.

But.

I can take my legitimate copy of a copyrighted painting, and deface it
with a magic marker eight ways from Sunday. Its *my* copy. The 
copyright means I can't *COPY* it. I didnt copy it. 

Did you sign an agreement when you bought your software promising
you would not *change* it ? 

This is not an issue of piracy or marauder, this is what rights do you
have to the software you purchased.

Kent, I looked up xant in the dictionary, and it said: "yellow"

So:

>Kent, the man from xanth

should be:

>
>Kent, the man from yellow.

Sorry about that.
-- 
Richard Sexton
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