Re: oem vs retail full version

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From: kurttrail (dontemailme_at_anywhereintheknownuniverse.org)
Date: 03/24/04 

Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 21:28:20 -0500

Jupiter Jones [MVP] wrote:

> Alias;
> Possibly "Simple economics", however it is up to the owner to decide
> how and at what cost to distribute the product.

In monopolistic markets. In competitive markets, it's price that is usually
somewhat a matter of what the market will bear.

> People that think just because the price is to high and pirate
> something are nothing more than thieves.

When the market will no longer bear the price, piracy happens. Piracy will
always happen. Just like their will always be theives. But what MS & the
BSA trust are trying to FUD everyone into believing is that "fair use" is
piracy too, by means of an anonymous post-purchase "shrink-wrap license"
that they have no intention of ever enforcing on private individual by legal
means.

"Any individual may reproduce a copyrighted work for a 'fair use'; the
copyright owner does not possess the exclusive right to such a use." - US
Supreme Court

>
> It has been said many times.
> Cost does nothing to justify theft.
> People choose to be thieves or not.
> Microsoft or any other business for that matter is in no way the
> cause.
> People make and are responsible for their own choices.

But corporations aren't responsible for their's? LOL! MS, and the rest of
the BSA Junta, with their EULAs, are trying to create a whole new class of
"pirates" where none existed before, those that "fairly use" their copies of
legally purchased software.

MS, & the BSA KKK, should prove that they have the right to limit an
individual's legal right to "fair use" first, before any person believes it.

I didn't know we ammended the constitution to let copyright owners rewrite
the laws of Congress, and the rulings of the judicial branch, by
"shrink-wrap license?"

When ya'll can prove that a copyright owners rights hold more legal weight
in my home than my rights, give me a call, because until then MS could claim
anything that it wants, but that doesn't change what I have every right to
do under the law with my copies of copyrighted material for my private
non-commercial use in my home.

If MS wants to start kicking in towards the mortgage, that would be another
story, but MS has no right to tell me what I can and can not do with my
copies of copyright software in my home, until they can prove it through the
due process of law, by the preponderance of the evidence. Until they got
the balls to put their money where their EULA is, MS is just a boy crying
"Wolf" over and over again. Why should any rational human being believe
them anymore?

Better watch out for that wolf, Juppy Mouse! ROFL! 

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