Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!super!udel!rochester!pt.cs.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!mp1u+ From: mp1u+@andrew.cmu.edu (Michael Portuesi) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Dark Castle copy protection Message-ID: Date: 10 Dec 88 03:44:59 GMT References: , <1613@behemoth.UUCP> Organization: Carnegie Mellon Lines: 33 In-Reply-To: <1613@behemoth.UUCP> mph@behemoth.UUCP (Mark Huth) writes: > >... > > > >The people arguing for copy protection can simply go to hell. I paid > >$25 for this program and I have the right to use it in any manner I > >please. > > Unforunately, you probably did not pay $25 for this program and you > probably do not have the right to use it anyway that you please. > > You probably bought a license to use the program in the the manner > specified in the license. With the exceptions of certain "fair use" > extension to those rights, you don't have the right to use the program > in any other manner. If the software has a license, it cannot be found anywhere on the disks, packaging or documentation. Also missing is the phone number of Three-Sixty Software. I noticed that when copying the software to the HD, Copy stumbled on a file whose name was all spaces...sound familiar? Time for a session with NewZap. --M -- Michael Portuesi / Information Technology Center / Carnegie Mellon University INET: mp1u+@andrew.cmu.edu / BITNET: mp1u+%andrew.cmu.edu@cmccvb UUCP: ...harvard!andrew.cmu.edu!mp1u+ "I'm very sorry, Master, but that WAS the backup system" -- Slave