person@plains.UUCP (Brett G. Person) (06/07/90)
My boss handed me something today from TERABYTE who claim they will *RENT* siftware (minus docs) to me for a certain time for $2.00 a disk. The list of titles included most of the popular software including WP and Wordstar, lotus 123 and AutoCad. There was also a full page-and-a-half of games. Isn't this piracy? I doubt that they have 100 legit copies of word perfect to send out through the mail. Could I get in trouble for sending in 2 bucks for a 'demo' copy of populous? What do you guys know about these people? What are the legal liabilities involvedin this? Would Borland sue me for ordering a demo of Turbo Basic, etc. Thanks -- Brett G. Person North Dakota State University uunet!plains!person | person@plains.bitnet | person@plains.nodak.edu
khearn@uts.amdahl.com (Bug Hunter) (06/09/90)
In article <4983@plains.UUCP> person@plains.UUCP (Brett G. Person) writes: > >My boss handed me something today from TERABYTE who claim they will *RENT* >siftware (minus docs) to me for a certain time for $2.00 a disk. The list >of titles included most of the popular software including WP and Wordstar, >lotus 123 and AutoCad. There was also a full page-and-a-half of games. > >Isn't this piracy? I doubt that they have 100 legit copies of word perfect >to send out through the mail. Could I get in trouble for sending in 2 bucks >for a 'demo' copy of populous? I can't say anything about the legality, but I'd be careful about spending anything for most games without docs. I know that one of the first things Populous does is show you a coat of arms and ask you what world it belongs to. Of course the docs contain the answers, so if you don't have the docs, you can't even see what its like. Most games are using something similar nowdays. By the way, Populous is very good, just keep an eye on the clock (the real world one, that is), the night i bought the game, i went to 3:30 the next morning withour even noticing. Keith -- Keith Hearn \ khearn@amdahl.com \ Please don't step on the cacti Amdahl Corporation \ (408)737-5691(work) (408)984-6937(home)\