Re: (WOA) Wisdom of the Ages

[wong <whs@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Robert:

Thanks for you post also.


"Is it legal or illegal?"

I wasn't able to know the answer a year ago.  That was why I posted the
message a year ago...


I guess most of us at some time in our lives did copy/photocopy stuff and
sent them to friends.


Posting publicly to a newsgroup seems to be somewaht different.  (I don't
mind jaywalking.  But I would rather not do it explicitly in front of a cop.)


Regards,

Wong
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At 05:50 PM 05/21/2000 -0500, robert.cummings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>Well have you seen Napster.com. It deals with music and you can download 
>any song you can think of by the original artist. Is this legal or illegal? 
>If its illegal then nobody has stopped it and it grows everyday with new 
>people and all for free. Seems if I own a record I can let you copy it. I 
>can sell the original cd to you.. I can't make copies to sell myself to you.
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>Robert
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>At 02:56 PM 5/21/00 -0700, Matthew D. Langston wrote:
>>Hi Wong,
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>>Perhaps you are already aware of my suggestion, so I don't mean to insult
>>your intelligence if I misunderstood your e-mail.
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>>Perhaps you meant "license" instead of "copyright"?  The copyright is
>>meanlingless w.r.t. what you can do with the software that you purchased.
>>The licnese that the software was distributed under, however, is what will
>>tell you what you can and cannot do with the software.  So, check to see
>>what the software license says about the software that you purchased.
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>>Regards, Matt
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>>----- Original Message -----
>>From: "wong" <whs@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>To: <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>Sent: Sunday, May 21, 2000 3:26 PM
>>Subject: Re: (WOA) Wisdom of the Ages
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>> > Hi All:
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>> > Last year I was thinking of posting some ela's to the group - those
that I
>> > purhcased a few years ago and the developer/seller had since been
>>unreachable.
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>> > I asked advice from the group whether I would be infringing on copyright
>> > issues if I posted those ela's publicly.  Several members publicly and
>> > privately posted to me that even though the developer/seller was
>> > unreachable, those ela's are still copyrighted.
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>> > I didn't post those ela's after all.
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>> > I think it's prudent to check out the consequences before one proceeds to
>> > do what one intends to.
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>> > Regards,
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>> > Wong
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>> > At 11:15 AM 05/21/2000 -0700, Jim & Bullseye wrote:
>> > >Since the developer/seller of the WOA system
>> > >was busted for fraud by the CFTC, I don't
>> > >think TG's conscience will be bothering her.
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