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From: dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Shareware & Honesty (Was: Software (and other kinds of) copying)
Message-ID: <8801230737.AA04169@cory.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: 23 Jan 88 07:37:34 GMT
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:I think that the laws state that you can not be required to pay for unsolicited
:stuff that you get in the mail.  But you do not get to keep the stuff.
:Of course, I'm not a lawyer.  This is just what I've been led to understand
:by people who have received (for example) unsolicited magazine "trial
:subscriptions".

	If somebody sends me something through normal mail without ME ordering
it (i.e. out of the blue), there is no obligation on my part to return it.  As
far as trial subscriptions go, you need to ask for them... that is, fill in a
card offering the trial subscription.  If some magazine suddenly winds up in
my mail without MY asking for it, I'm under no obligation to pay for it.  I
am almost positive the law is something to this effect, but even if it 
isn't it is quite obvious that the outcome of a court battle would be in my
favor.

					-Matt