Don said:
kurttrail said:
Don Burnette wrote:
kurttrail wrote:
Steve wrote:
I've been haring conflicting stories.
I'm curious, being I own more than one PC I'd like to
install it on, if I can install and activate it on more
than one of my computers?
Thanks,
Steve
http://microscum.kurttrail.com/mmpafaq/mmpafaq.htm
Depends on who you think is the Judge in your home! The choice is
yours!
Yes, you can choose piracy, or choose honesty.
Piracy is the reason we have to deal with wpa now.
Show one shred of legal evidence [and Microsoft's words don't count]
that says that an individual installing the same copy of software on
more than one of their computers.
The choice is whether your feel your right to fair usely your copies
of legally purchased retail software in your home can be stripped
away from you by a post-sale shrinkwrap license, or not.
You buy the software, install it, AGREE to the Eula, and proceed.
Plenty enough evidence of piracy for me by knowlingly breaking the
agreement you accepted.
The only evidence is that you don't know what you are talking about!
It's a contract dispute, not theft or piracy.
No, there won't be legal evidence, doesn't have to be.
LOL! What dream world do you live in, where people are guilty of
non-existent crimes with no legal evidence?
We, the MS consumer , pay the price for actions you support at the
end of the day, and right now in the form of wpa.
You have the greed of MS to thank for PA! MS's attempt to part more
money than they deserve for MS's paying consumers!
Agree to the eula, abide by it. Don't agree, don't install and return
the software.
Or break the contract, like people have been fo aver a decade!
Breaking a contract isn't illegal in and of itself, and the it's up
to the other party to enforce their contract in a court of law. MS
has failed to do this!
Don't get much simpler than that.
When you don't know how contract law works, it's very simple! LOL!
Is MS going to take you or any casual copier to court? Of course not,
but they will continue to progress on things like wpa because of what
the likes of you do.
The likes of me! LOL!
"The limited scope of the copyright holder's statutory monopoly, like
the limited copyright duration required by the Constitution, reflects
a balance of competing claims upon the public interest: Creative work
is to be encouraged and rewarded, but private motivation must
ultimately serve the cause of promoting broad public availability of
literature, music, and the other arts. The immediate effect of our
copyright law is to secure a fair return for an 'author's' creative
labor. But the ultimate aim is, by this incentive, to stimulate
artistic creativity for the general public good. 'The sole interest
of the United States and the primary object in conferring the
monopoly,' this Court has said, 'lie in the general benefits derived
by the public from the labors of authors' . . . . When technological
change has rendered its literal terms ambiguous, the Copyright Act
must be construed in light of this basic purpose." -
http://laws.findlaw.com/us/422/151.html
MS has $49 billion in cash reserves as of July 2003! In spite of fact
that almost all of their non-software businesses are losing money. On
top of all the legal settlements for Anti-trust abuse, and copyright &
patent infringement! Not to mention the losses due to the organized
crime software piracy rings operating in many Asian countries that
have weak or nearly non-existent copyright laws and/or enforcement.
Can anyone one argue, with a straight face, that MS hasn't gotten a
"fair return" for the creative labor of it's employees? So is there
any reasonable argument that MS's One Computer EULA term in keeping
with the 'primary object" of Copyright which lies "in the general
benefits derived by the public from the labors of authors?"
It's all about corporate copyright owners that think that the purpose
of copyright is to protect so-called "intellectual property," not "in
the general benefits derived by the public from the labors of
authors." You have bought MS's FUD hook line and sinker! It's just
that simple! We have to thank you and your ilk for accept PA,
because you bought MS's PA-Disabled products! As long as consumers
reinforce MS's PA nonsense by paying MS for it, MS will continue this
nonsense!
