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- From: jprad@faatcrl.faa.gov (Jack Radigan)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: PIRACY
- Message-ID: <jprad.722418636@faatcrl>
- Date: 22 Nov 92 07:53:00 GMT
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- jas54553@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Jerry A. Segler Jr.) writes:
-
- >5 people chip in to buy that new game or whatever... Under most people's
- >definition that is Piracy but each person believes they are "morally" correct
- >since they did pay for the program (at least partially)...
-
- >Is this Piracy? And if so who gets set to jail all 5 or an arbitrary 4 of the
- >5? Also what was stolen?
-
- Depends. Is the program being treated like a book where only one person of
- the group is using it at any given time?
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- If they are, then according to Borland's licensing policy, it's ok.
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- If more than one copy is in use at any given moment then they are using it
- illegally.
-
- -jack-
-