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From: mwm@eris (Mike (My watch has windows) Meyer)
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Subject: Re: Software (and other kinds of) copying
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Date: 22 Jan 88 08:30:33 GMT
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In article <1861@optilink.UUCP> cramer@optilink.UUCP (Clayton Cramer) writes:
<What makes software different from these other categories of human endeavor?

That laws making it illegal to give your friends copies are
unenforceable. Note that I'm using "software" in the generic sense of
"intellectual property you put on a medium that makes your hardware
usefull" - computer programs, movies, music, and probably other things
that I've missed.

When producers of the software start seeing adding something that
makes the product inferior as a *good* thing, it's time for a reality
check.

For computer programs, we have software protection in various flavors.
For movies, we have macrovision. And they're talking about raping
compact disks by putting a 3KHz (I think I've got the number right)
tone on them to disable DATs. What's wrong with this picture?

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