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From: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: Firmware Piracy
Message-ID: <2433@bsu-cs.UUCP>
Date: 21 Mar 88 17:28:07 GMT
References: <18600042@clio> <3888@umix.cc.umich.edu>
Reply-To: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi)
Organization: CS Dept, Ball St U, Muncie, Indiana
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In article <3888@umix.cc.umich.edu> honey@citi.umich.edu (Peter Honeyman)
writes:
>if their roms are copyrighted, then you don't
>have the right to copy them.  case closed.

Copyright law contains a "fair use" provision that lets you make a copy
of a copyrighted work for certain limited purposes.  Given an eloquent
enough appeal, a judge might rule that copying a upgraded ROM was fair
use, since the ROM that the person already paid for didn't work right.
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Rahul Dhesi         UUCP:  <backbones>!{iuvax,pur-ee,uunet}!bsu-cs!dhesi