Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site ecn-pc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!ecn-pc!mdm From: mdm@ecn-pc.UUCP (Mike D McEvoy) Newsgroups: net.micro Subject: Re: Microsoft Copy protection allegedly erases files Message-ID: <419@ecn-pc.UUCP> Date: Sat, 9-Nov-85 21:11:13 EST Article-I.D.: ecn-pc.419 Posted: Sat Nov 9 21:11:13 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 11-Nov-85 06:17:45 EST References: <2716@brl-tgr.ARPA> Reply-To: mdm@ecn-pc.UUCP (Mike D McEvoy) Organization: Cybotech Product Development Lab Lines: 19 >RE: The Day Microsoft Access Ate My Hard Disk by Sheldon L. > Richman Computer Columnist, Washington (D.C.) Times > >Certainly erasing files via a copy protection scheme is arguable in >court - As everyone knows, courts decide in ways (precedents) that >some do not expect. How about an opinion from some of the legal eagles out there in net land. Are there any legal grounds for suit against Microsoft for installing disk eater copy "protection" schemes" Are they liable for damages due to the destruction of file due to the action of deliberatly installed code to avenge the user??? Big Mac