Thread: Philosophical Quandry: Piracy
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Old July 11th, 2003, 08:50 PM

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Default Re: Philosophical Quandry: Piracy
"If you really want, you can go make 150000 copies of your Windows CD. As long as you keep every Last one, Microsoft can not do anything to you."

But! The windows CD is a special case, since it has no copy protection. You're allowed to make backups, but not allowed to break the copy protection in order to -make- those backups. If that isn't a stupid legal problem I don't know what is.

And no, I don't consider violating EULAs to be breaking my word. Especially with the IMO immoral restrictions some have tried to sneak in- like "by opening this package you agree to the liscence agreement inside" Hello? I think not. Also, a few have tried to put "You may not give this product bad reviews" in their EULA..
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