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From: mdf@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu (Mark D. Freeman)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: ZOO Copyrights (was: Re: requests to post zoo)
Message-ID: <23175@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu>
Date: 1 Oct 88 00:06:30 GMT
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Reply-To: mdf@tut.cis.osu-state.edu (Mark D. Freeman)
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In <3955@bsu-cs.UUCP> dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi) writes:
>The requirement is that whoever distributes zoo 2.x online do so for no
>more than $8/hour at 1200 bps during evening/night hours.  I don't care
>about other times or other data rates.  Even $100/hour at 300 bps and
>2400 bps is fine, so long as people can call at 1200 bps and get the
>$8/hour rate.
>
>I don't care about the charge at 2400 bps because anybody who can
>download at 2400 bps can also download at 1200 bps.  All the modems and
>networks that handle 2400 bps also handle 1200 bps.  The reverse is not
>necessarily true.

Would it be OK for CompuServe to make zoo.exe available for download
from its Fourm Libraries if no users had the ability to download it at
1200 baud at all?  I've been discussing the technical end of this with
some of our people, and it seems that it is theoretically possible to
prevent downloads of a particular file at a particular speed.

All this seems more than a little silly, but I suppose you have a right
to do whatever you want with your program.  After all, I support Woody
Allen's right to keep people from colorizing his films.

Anyway, what do you think of my possible solution?
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