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Offline KThunder

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Re: Workbench license
« on: January 23, 2006, 05:41:02 PM »
the dmca has never been used against idividuals downloading anything. us law concerning fair use law has made it not necissarily impossible but worthless to do so. lawyers usually go after the distributors and have to do so for specific infractions ie a specific instance of a specific pieced of software being placed for download.
search the net for "abandonware" and you will find numerous sites that have lots of software some of which is labled that it has been removed for copyright reasons. the site is still up, the person isnt in jail but they had to take that specific software down.
in otherwords down worry about the law worry about depriving a legitimate active copyright holder of profit (youve already bought af so amigainc is happy)
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Re: Workbench license
« Reply #1 on: January 23, 2006, 05:48:00 PM »
btw when you buy a piece of software you dont own it you own a licence to place a copy of it on your machine. that licence is separate from the media which may not even be present (ala microsoft oem deals)
fair use laws allow you to load that software from almost anywere (even microsofts eula allows loading over a network)
fair use laws also limit how much the licensor is allowed to resrict your use of the license. in other words apple, or amiga, or ms can say thet you are allowed to use the sowtware on a specific piece of hardware even if there is no legal way that they can enforce that. that what is meant in most eulas when they say that state or federal laws may change or void certain parts of the eula.

thay can claim anything they want to try to scare you (nintendo)
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