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Date:	Mon, 21 Feb 2005 15:15:19 PST8
From:	Peter Skye <pskye@peterskye.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Cheap Software...?

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Martin Rosenfeld wrote:
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> Peter,
>
> It seems that you are saying that a company can buy a legal copy of
> software, then sell as many copies as it wants online. Is that so?

As long as they pay the manufacturer.

I'm 57 and we're both in the same age range. Remember the old Columbia
Record Club? You could buy 12" albums at very good prices from them.
Do you know how it worked? CRC would license the master tapes from the
record companies and press their own albums. You weren't buying the
record company's version of the album. You were buying CRC's version.
This was _legal_ because CRC licensed the product.

If your software vendor has a license to do what it's doing then it's
legal. If they buy one copy and then make copies _without_ a license to
do so, then they are in violation of both criminal law and civil law.

There's a legal difference between "can" and "may". They "can" do it.
Whether or not they "may" do it depends on the licensing.

If you want the cheap software, go and buy it. You can always ask the
original manufacturer later if you have a legal copy and pay them the
proper license fee if necessary.

Or . . . were you thinking about setting up a "Cheap Software" online
business? ;-)

- Peter

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