OT: Software copyright law?

[NullAshton]

On some licenses, they no longer give you the ability to make a backup. The copy on the origional CD is all you get.

[Fyron]

NullAshton said:
On some licenses, they no longer give you the ability to make a backup. The copy on the origional CD is all you get.

Licenses could never "give" you the right to make copies. That is a right (still) guaranteed by fair use laws. Content owners have no ability to take that right away without getting Congress to change the law. The DMCA makes it illegal to break copy protetion, but it did not take away the right to make backup copies...

[AgentZero]

Imperator Fyron said:
Licenses could never "give" you the right to make copies. That is a right (still) guaranteed by fair use laws. Content owners have no ability to take that right away without getting Congress to change the law. The DMCA makes it illegal to break copy protetion, but it did not take away the right to make backup copies...

Yup, typical example of how corporations will try to deny you your legal right to something if it might cut into their profits by telling you it's illegal for you to do so. I've personally seen dozens of examples where companies have tried to intimidate people into giving up something they're entitled to by threatening them with lawyers, lawsuits, fines, prison, etc, but on the occasions where the person stood up and refused to be intimidated, the company backed off since they knew they didn't have a legal leg to stand on.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

Couldn't the person have them arrested for threats?