RE: A89: Me distributing roms

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RE: A89: Me distributing roms


The law is not the law. On the internet your NOT UNDER LAWS. I mean god
dammit, if you need so much example, what if you live in austrillia, and
what if austrillia said we dont enforce internet laws. How the hell would
you be breaking a law!

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-assembly-89@lists.ticalc.org
[mailto:owner-assembly-89@lists.ticalc.org]On Behalf Of Alan C Johnson
Sent: Friday, January 14, 2000 7:07 PM
To: assembly-89@lists.ticalc.org
Subject: Re: A89: Me distributing roms



Look, no matter how you try to reason this out, the law is the law and
the law says you *can't* distribute someone elses software freely without
their permission.  It doesn't matter if it happens through the internet,
on floppy disks, or another way.  Disclaimers are meaningless, they are
only a statement.  They can prosecute anyone who illegaly distributes
software without the authors permission

Alan

> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2000 15:40:38 -0800
> From: "Serial" <Serial@earthlink.net>
> Subject: Re: A89: Me distributing roms.
>
> see the thing is. The internet is public domain. It's precisly the
> opposite
> on the internet. If someone doesn't say it's private then it's not.
> Unlike
> say the Owner of the lawnmower saying it is free and you can take it
> because
> of that and if it's on his lawn and you take it without him knowing
> it's
> thieft, on the internet if it's on his lawn it's automatically free.
> He
> would have to put a sign up saying do not take and while maybe a
> case could
> be formed against someone who did it'd never get prosecuted. The
> internet
> has over 400 million people that pass through it in a single day,
> the law on
> a public network is not only free is that which you can attain but
> even
> extends to free is that which you can attain from sources other than
> its
> distrobutor. You'll notice that precisly for reasons such as this
> adobe
> doesn't offer a download of it on their site. (Trialware maybe?) If
> they did
> no words other than not being there in the first place are
> equivalent to do
> not touch.

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