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Article #370Re: Software groups warn of FTA dangers
From: Rod Speed
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2004 05:47
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2004 05:47
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Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> wrote in message news:41253e2a$0$8833$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au... > Even with region coding, which I dislike intensely at an emotional level, I find it hard to produce an object argument to support > the notion that the people who created the works in question shouldn't be able to restrict when they are made available in > different parts of the world. Your deficiencys are your problem. > Turn it around, and ask yourself how you'd feel if you'd done some creative work, and then other people felt they were entitled to > tell you what you can do with it. Like the TPA does eh ? > Sometimes there are no right answers. Pathetic, really.
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