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Amiga News and Community Announcements => Amiga News and Community Announcements => Amiga Software News => Topic started by: Ryu on October 30, 2003, 02:53:49 AM
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New exemptions to the anticircumvention provisions of the US DMCA have been issued (http://www.copyright.gov/1201/). (The Register of Copyrights at the Library of Congress does this every three years.)
HD installers for Amiga games are still exempt. The Amiga even gets a very brief mention in the 198-page recommendations document! (http://www.copyright.gov/1201/docs/registers-recommendation.pdf)
The text of the relevant exemption reads as follows:
"Computer programs and video games distributed in formats that have become obsolete and which require the original media or hardware as a condition of access. A format shall be considered obsolete if the machine or system necessary to render perceptible a work stored in that format is no longer manufactured or is no longer reasonably available in the commercial marketplace."
Source: Ann.lu (http://www.ann.lu/detail.cgi?category=unmoderated&file=1067478663.msg)
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That's kinda kewl...
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I'm too lazy to read the entire document, but doesn't this clearly state that emulation is legal? :-?
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Obsolete formats include particular media, as
well as operating systems, that are no longer manufactured or reasonably available in the
marketplace ... a likely example of an obsolete operating system is the Commodore Amiga operating system.
(http://os.amiga.com/grafx/amigaos4.png)
ahem...
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What have HD installers got to do with emulation? The games still run on Amiga hardware...
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(http://os.amiga.com/grafx/amigaos4.png)
ahem...
And to quote Mr Hermans... "When it's ready..." ;-)
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Not all world lives on the Yankee-land ;)
Actually there are some countries that still without have software patents ( aka Spain, for example... ).
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this is the biggest bunch of croc i have read in ages.
according to this there is no antique values in the world :)
morals are good , morals are great but when the goverment finds out that moral + with moral minus = happy people ..thats when the moral is best :P
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Of course it's a conspiracy and Genesi are bribing congress to make duplication of 1990's AmigaOS and circumvention of AmigaOS 4.x dongles legal.
=Neko=
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Holy heck! It's warez time! ;-) NewTek - how 'bout emailing me a free copy of LightWave 3D 5.0???
Oh, and the HD installer debacle was all about whether it was legal for Aminet to distribute HD installers which circumvented copy-protection on Amiga disk-based games - hopefully they'll make them available again now...
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Quote:
Obsolete formats include particular media, as
well as operating systems, that are no longer manufactured or reasonably available in the
marketplace ... a likely example of an obsolete operating system is the Commodore Amiga operating system.
ahem...
...Well it is not "Commodore" anymore, on the other hand... the "reasonably available in the marketplace" part is to be seen.
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The phrase "A format shall be considered obsolete if the machine or system necessary to render perceptible a work stored in that format is no longer manufactured or is no longer reasonably available in the commercial marketplace." may allow DeCSS to be legal if, for example, the commercial marketplace can be considered on a per platform basis. I.e. is there a commercial product (system for playing) on Linux (the market place that consists of Linux OS machines) that can decode and play DVDs? If not, then a free ware product looks like it should be legitimate. The same would go for Amiga. No commercial RSA ? Then a freeware version is OK. etc.
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What lamers these government officials are. AmigaOS is by no means 'obsolete', it is still very much commercially available (OS3.9) and still very much under continuing development and improvement (OS4.0).
I don't see Urban jumping to restore any HD-installers to Aminet, but this does not surprise me, his unreasonable hatred of HD-installers doesn't have anything to do with the DMCA...