[SGVLUG] [OT]-ish: Really stretching the meaning of "copy"...
John E. Kreznar
jek at ininx.com
Tue Feb 17 14:11:16 PST 2009
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"Emerson, Tom \(*IC\)" <Tom.Emerson at wbconsultant.com> writes:
> The URL there hints at it, but the [authors guild] "claim" is that
> text-to-speech programs are /illegaly/ "copying" a work...
Well, at least they're not trying to forbid people from reading and
comprehending their works, like proprietary software companies do.
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John E. Kreznar jek at ininx.com 9F1148454619A5F08550 705961A47CC541AFEF13
To "reverse engineer" something is to come to comprehend it, so what a
EULA really does is to forbid comprehension. For this they charge money?!
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