[News] AFUA visited Thendic-France | ANN.lu |
Posted on 24-Apr-2002 15:30 GMT by Teemu I. Yliselä | 629 comments View flat View list |
The French Amiga user group AFUA visited the Thendic-France headquarters and met with Bill Buck and the Coyote Flux guys. Read their report here.
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Posted by Stefan Burström on 28-Apr-2002 15:08 GMT | In reply to Comment 577 (Kolbjørn Barmen): >In Reply to Comment 496:
>Ofcourse all those acc-boards that has a jumper to copy the ROM to fast RAM are also illegal, right?
>Or me using a softkicker to use a patched kickstart with replaced exec.library, shell, ram-handler etc.
>is also illegal, right?
Actually reading the various court cases on this, it is not clear if this is legal or not. However, it
is not up to YOU to decide if it is legal or not. Just because someone hasn't challenged they way you
use stuff, doesn't make it legal automatically. Lets assume that C= was bothered with applications
patching the KS rom, they could sue but if C= found that patching the KS rom did more good than bad
then they could silently allow it. This doesn't automatically make things legal.
>Duckwit, I purchased the hardware and I purchased the software, as owner of both I can do
>whatever I like to have it work as I like. Those are my rights as a customer, as owner of products
>I have bought. I can even buildt myself a flashram card and dump the rom there if I like, or make new
>custom ROM chips with our EPROM-burner and use those in my amiga or any other machine I own.
Sorry, but now you are wrong. Making copies of software is legal as long as you do it for backup purposes.
However, making a replica of a rom is not defined as makig a backup. You are basically saying that you can
buy 1 KS3.1 rom and make 3 copies and put it in your 3 Amigas but only paying for 1. This is called theft.
You are yet another one of the people who seems to thing. 'Hey I bought this thing, I can do whatever
I like with it.' If you paid attention and read the EULA for your Amiga you'd for example realize that
you cannot use your Amiga for any nuclear warehead research at all. Even if you paid for it!
By bying a product and breaking the seal, you acknowledge any agreement related to the product that
accompanies it, either directly or indirectly. If you disagree, you have the right to return the
product and get a full refund.
>What you suggest is that it should be illegal for me to fix my bike-B using parts made for some bike-A
>by adifferent wendor. Nonsense. Or are you suggesting that bikes arent IP? I'm sure the deisngers of
>bikes will like to hear that.
Sorry, but since you cannot make a digital copy of your bike, the laws that covers computer IP doesn't
apply to material things.
>If it really was a matter of just IP, then why would I have to purchase a software twice to use it on two
>computers? I dont have to buy a book twice for both me and my brother to read it, do I? Well with DMCA
>and the upcoming EUCD that would certainly be the case for e-books. And the books will also auto-
>destruct after you have read them, to read it again you will have to buy it again.
Nothing prevents you from using stuff several times. However, making copies is a completely different
issue. (With regulations and _exceptions_ of course ;)
Btw, I wanted to release an application (ie an E-book) it is up to me if I want to make it delete
itself after use. If you try to interfere with that by eg. making a copy, your are breaking the law.
(Otherwise it would be perfectly legal to break your 30 day licence code you got for the application
you downloaded ;)
regards,
Stefan Burström |
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