Re: How to retrieve serial number of OS or CPU for copy protection

From: Mark L (L_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 09/17/04 

Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 12:21:03 -0700

I have read down to this point in the thread. I think all of you are missing
the point here. Copy right laws in software is to stop you from taking the
software and re-engineering it into a product of your own. Then a copyright
theft has taken place.

If you read your licence agreements on your software, it states that you
have not purchased a copy of the software, but the right to use that
software. If the license then goes on to state that you can only us it on one
machine, or on one machine at a time, then that is an agreement between you
and the software make/publisher.

Another point to state here is that any information that you put into the
software package, (Images, Code, documents, information) is yours. and that
is the software has a security key which at some point stops you from
accesses that information, then the software company has stolen your
property. That is why in the Eighties all those software packages that had
time bomb evaluation copies went away. One company took a software company to
court for theft of their data.

Mark

"David J. Craig" wrote:

> I just have to jump in here. If the milkman pays a wife a 'visit' while the
> husband is working, was anything 'stolen'?
>
> The 'billions' and not likely 'trillions' of dollars (US) is a bunch of BS
> to impress the stupid. It also makes it easier for the politicians to keep
> taking the bribes to extend the length of copyright and approve other laws
> such as the DMCA. However, that doesn't mean that you taking my property -
> intellectual or not - is good, legal, or moral. You have stolen my work and
> not provided me the compensation I have decided that my work is due. If you
> don't want to pay me, leave my stuff alone. Since I do have a little money
> in a mutual fund or two, when you steal from major US corporations, you are
> stealing from me too. Also you are stealing from everyone in this country
> and everyone who holds assets of the company whose product you steal.
>
> The 'very low income person' can go to work for a company that will buy them
> the tools to do the job or as some jobs in this country require, pay them
> enough to buy their own tools - auto mechanic, for example. It is not my
> fault that I have to pay many times as much for my food, housing,
> transportation, medical care, etc. as someone who lives in a lower cost of
> living country. Even in the US, there are major differences between prices
> in various locales. When I was in Utah, a family practice doctor charged
> $35 for a visit. In Naples, Florida the basic price was $75. True,
> insurance pays for much of it, but it really comes out of my pocket in one
> way or another.
>
>
> "Mihai N." <nmihai_year_2000@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:Xns955E96A35FCEMihaiN@207.46.248.16...
> >
> >>> Are you working for RIAA? Same faulty comparison with stealing objects.
> >>> A stolen object is gone. A copyed software is still there.
> >>
> >> But the revenue which comes from the pirated software is no less gone.
> > Please read the whole answer, don't just quote a sentence out of context.
> > I did explain why there was no money to go. Because the very low income
> > person would have never bought the product.
> > This is no argument for piracy, is more about learning to detect
> > false claims of "trilions of USD lost to piracy."
> >
> >
> > --
> > Mihai
> > -------------------------
> > Replace _year_ with _ to get the real email
>
>
>

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