Thread: OT: Software copyright law?
View Single Post
  #2  
Old November 7th, 2005, 03:23 PM
Fyron's Avatar

Fyron Fyron is offline
Shrapnel Fanatic
  
Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: Southern CA, USA
Posts: 18,394
Thanks: 0
Thanked 12 Times in 10 Posts
Fyron is an unknown quantity at this point
Default Re: OT: Software copyright law?
It would be illegal, except that the morons on Capital Hill rushed the atrocious Digital Millennium Copyright Act into law virtually without debating it... The DMCA is what made bypassing copy protection schemes illegal. Starforce would be illegal if it were not for the DMCA.
__________________
It's not whether you win or lose that counts: it's how much pain you inflict along the way.
--- SpaceEmpires.net --- RSS --- SEnet ModWorks --- SEIV Modding 101 Tutorial
--- Join us in the #SpaceEmpires IRC channel on the Freenode IRC network.
--- Due to restrictively low sig limits, you must visit this link to view the rest of my signature.
Reply With Quote