espen@well.UUCP (Peter Espen) (09/30/86)
If i am a legal owner of a copy of Microsoft's Flight Simulator program, is it legal for me to patch the program to allow it to run off my Hard Drive and defeat the copy protection? Is it legal for me to post these patches to the net? If you own Flight Simulator, read the License agreement on the back of the manual and tell me what you think! Peter Espen (espen@well)
DMB@PSUVMA.BITNET (10/09/86)
Disclaimer: These beliefs are not my own, and never were.
It seems to me whatever MicroSoft says, you can do anything you want to
your copy of the program, legally. From patching it to remove copyprotection,
even to sticking it through a paper shredder. If you buy a book it's yours and
you can tear out as many pages as you like, or write on the pages in
magenta crayon.
davetim@ism780c.UUCP (Tim Smith) (10/13/86)
In article <7817DMB@PSUVMA> DMB@PSUVMA.BITNET writes: > It seems to me whatever MicroSoft says, you can do anything > you want to your copy of the program, legally. From patching it > to remove copyprotection, even to sticking it through a paper > shredder. If you buy a book it's yours and you can tear out as > many pages as you like, or write on the pages in magenta crayon. But a book is not a computer program. Until someone interprets the law as saying "a computer program is the same as a book", what you can do to a book has nothing to do with what you can do to software. -- member, all HASA divisions POELOD ECBOMB -------------- ^-- Secret Satanic Message Tim Smith USENET: sdcrdcf!ism780c!tim Compuserve: 72257,3706 Delphi or GEnie: mnementh