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Don't Copy Dat Floppy!

Postby Link Antilles » Fri Feb 13, 2004 9:39 pm

That's just priceless. ;)

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Postby glitch1501 » Fri Feb 13, 2004 9:42 pm

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Postby cbwing0 » Sat Feb 14, 2004 6:52 am

I've seen this before, but I think I'll watch it again. ;)

I do have one question, though: does anyone actually buy multiple copies of a piece of software for each computer in their own home?
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Postby madphilb » Sat Feb 14, 2004 11:48 am

Companies do.... esp. if they don't want a visit from the piracy police.

I think software licences have changed, for some things anyway. That's the final answer on what you can do with the software.
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Postby cbwing0 » Sat Feb 14, 2004 12:43 pm

I see...I heard on Tech TV that companies don't care if you make 2-3 for home use, although they will get suspicious if you start having more than that.
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Postby Bobtheduck » Sat Feb 14, 2004 5:07 pm

"one program on one computer"

Yet more reason that consoles are better for games... I can take a small DVD to my friend's house, instead of a heavy computer and monitor...
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Postby Saint Kevin » Sat Feb 14, 2004 5:29 pm

I can't believe I watched more than 2 minutes of that. Awful.
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Postby Straylight » Sat Feb 14, 2004 6:27 pm

That was hilarious :D
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Postby shooraijin » Sat Feb 14, 2004 7:48 pm

Ewww, Windows Media. Anyone converted this to a more sensible format? ^^
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Postby madphilb » Sat Feb 14, 2004 9:07 pm

cbwing0 wrote:I see...I heard on Tech TV that companies don't care if you make 2-3 for home use, although they will get suspicious if you start having more than that.

This is generally considered acceptable.

Note that some software companies will allow this as part of their licence agreement (and if you've ever read those things, some of them make you promise to do some really stupid things... i.e. - some have told you you can't review or write about the software.)

Bobtheduck wrote:"one program on one computer"

Yet more reason that consoles are better for games... I can take a small DVD to my friend's house, instead of a heavy computer and monitor...

This is where you use the "book" rule for software, but since most people don't have enough morals not to pirate in the first place it really doesn't matter.

The "booK" rule works like this: You treat the software like a book, I loan the book to you, I can't be reading the book while you have it... you still leave the software installed (games, etc) but you don't run it till you get the "book" back (at which point the person you loaned it to stops using it).

This like the above rule of multiple copies on your home personal machines is generally considered acceptable practice.

shooraijin wrote:Ewww, Windows Media. Anyone converted this to a more sensible format?

This is what I'm saying.... go shooby, go shooby, go shooby :thumb:
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Postby Fsiphskilm » Sun Feb 15, 2004 8:32 pm

[quote="shooraijin"]Ew
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