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From: michael@stb.UUCP (Michael)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: NFS on the amiga, or, how to steal software over the net
Message-ID: <1639@stb.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 12-Jul-87 01:14:59 EDT
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Posted: Sun Jul 12 01:14:59 1987
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Keywords: NFS, multi-tasking envy, Macintosh

In article <4299@jade.BERKELEY.EDU> mwm@eris.BERKELEY.EDU (Mike (My watch has windows) Meyer) writes:
>
>Why? Because if you use NFS to load a copy of AmigaTeX onto an Amiga
>for which it isn't licensed, you've just *stolen* a copy of AmigaTeX.
>True, you're going to throw it away shortly. But theft is theft, even
>if only for a short period of time.

Hold on. Software laws now allow you to make any copies necessary to run the
program, so if you copied AmigaTex onto your amiga from NFS, there's no more
of a problem then copying it from a disk onto memory.

The problem would occur if two different amiga's were using the same AmigaTex
at the same time.
-- 
: Michael Gersten		seismo!scgvaxd!stb!michael
: Copy protection? Just say Pirate! (if its worth pirating)