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| From: Marko_Mäkelä
Date: 1998-07-21
Subject: Re: BSA was: Re: Next one 2 Levente...
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On Tue, 21 Jul 1998, Rajnai Almos wrote:
> I don't want to get lost in parts of the situation, but I was really
> curious, and I asked the vice-president of BSA about converted and
> just old programs. He said: you may do anything with any program, if
> the maker does not want to get you into trouble.
There are two kinds of crimes: ones where you must be sued by the victim of the crime, and ones where a public prosecutor can sue you. Copyright infringments belong to the first category. There is nothing new in that.
If the "victim" has gone bankrupt, it is highly unlikely that anyone will sue you for spreading old stuff. I and many other C= file archive maintainers count on that and keep the old documentation, firmware and similar stuff online. On ftp.funet.fi I don't keep any commercial C64
games, because that would draw too much attention to the site, and I also want to maintain a certain level of quality on the site.
Marko
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