Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!ut-sally!utah-cs!utah-gr!stride!l5comp!scotty From: scotty@l5comp.UUCP (Scott Turner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: "Look up a word in the manual" copy protection Message-ID: <294@l5comp.UUCP> Date: Fri, 10-Jul-87 02:32:21 EDT Article-I.D.: l5comp.294 Posted: Fri Jul 10 02:32:21 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 12-Jul-87 14:01:34 EDT References: <4807@sgi.SGI.COM> <6816@g.ms.uky.edu> <1812@vax135.UUCP> Reply-To: scotty@l5comp.UUCP (Scott Turner) Organization: L5 Computing, Edmonds, WA Lines: 27 Summary: I'm NOT for it. In article <1812@vax135.UUCP> cjp@vax135.UUCP (Charles Poirier) writes: >equipment. It doesn't take anything like two minutes if you know where >your manual is to start with. Think of it as a soft dongle (pardon my Obviously you've never misplaced a manual, or had it sprout legs. "Were is my XXX manual?" "Uh, I borrowed it Scott and it's at home, sorry..." Or how about you took the manual home and left it there? I obey the law, I have no bootleg software on any of my Amiga disks. Why should I be treated like a criminal and forced to pass a litmus test everytime I want to use a piece of software? That's what happens everytime that program comes up and asks you to find a word in the manual "Scotty, time to prove to me again that you really own me." There's a REASON for that amendment that goes "Unreasonable search and seizure", it's rather bothersome having people search you over and over again for signs of illegal activities. If we won't put up with it from law enforcement personel why should we let software get away with it? This is what I mean by we gave these corporations and inch and they've taken a MILE from us. They like to cast US as the bad guys, but they aren't all that clean themselves. Scott Turner -- UUCP-stick: stride!l5comp!scotty | If you want to injure my goldfish just make UUCP-auto: scotty@l5comp.UUCP | sure I don't run up a vet bill. GEnie: JST | "The bombs drop in 5 minutes" R. Reagan Disclaimer? I own L5 Computing. Isn't that enough?