Donald said:
I can think of the DMCP for one.
Do you mean the DMCA which states, "Other Rights, Etc., Not
Affected.—(1) Nothing in this section shall affect rights, remedies,
limitations, or defenses to copyright infringement, including fair use,
under this title."
Whether or not Microsoft has arrested someone (btw, MIcrosoft COULDN'T
do this, since they are not a governmental body, and as such, cannot
enforce the Law) is irrelevant.
Actually no its not. Since its a matter of competing rights, that of
the individual in the privacy of their own home vs. that of the
copyright owner to violate that privacy via a shrinkwrap license on a
consumer product.
Until that conflict is definitively settled, I have the right to define
my rules in my home, Microsoft be damned.
And if MS ever has the balls to put this conflict before a court, their
lack of due diligence in enforcing their EULA for private non-commercial
use, in EULA after EULA, since Windows 3.0, will be held against them.
The legal eagles at MS know this, that's part of the reason for the PA
conjob, to convince people of something MS is too afraid to have legally
defined in a court of law.
BTW, there is absolutely nothing wrong with installing your copy of
Vista onto a second machine. You just have to make sure to delete it
from the first.
LOL! I have Vista installed for purposes of criticism and education, so
I have no reason to want to pollute another computer with it.
However there should be a new crop of Linux distros I might want to be
checking out soon.
Kurt, you know I never "troll" ANYONE. No need to. Your posts are
usually so far off the wall as to seem ridiculous already.
At least I'm reasonable enough to acknowledge the legal gray areas. You
only see one side of this conflict of rights. Microsoft's.
And this is against your own best interest as an individual consumer of
Microsoft products, because as long as MS has its sycophants like you,
the more they will be resistant to changing due to consumer pressure.
And there is no need to insult you, since you do that quite well yourself.
LOL! Actually I am quite good at taking jabs at myself. But I'm rarely
ever insulted by anything said over the internet, whether by myself or
others.
By the way, kurt, if I remember my English correctly, "troll" refers to
a mythical monster who lives under bridges or in caves.
It also can mean "leaving the fishing pole trailing behind your boat
while fishing."
BTW, don, troll has another meaning on the series of tubes that is the
Internets. Try using the Google to find out what it means nowadays.
The way you (and other semi-English posters) are using it is irregular
and improper.
And I do suppose you lift your little finger up while you sip tea?
Dude, I drink beer, still listen to rock-n-roll very loudly, and enjoy
an occasional joint or two. I don't worry much about doing things the
proper way. Life's too short to worry about the useless nonsense of
some abstract concept of what is "proper."
I NEVER do this figuratively.
Damn! I just had this picture of you on figure skates! Scary!
I DO like to "troll for bass", though.
Yum! Yum!
I'm gonna leave that one alone for my own sake. Or else I might just
have one of those rare moments where even I'm insulted by something I
wrote. ;-)
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Peace!
Kurt
Former Self-anointed Moderator
microscum.pubic.windowsexp.gonorrhea
"Produkt-Aktivierung macht frei!"
