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Re: CoCo II Emulator ROMs

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From: carlboll
Date: Wed, 01 Dec 1993 15:57
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What praytell do you think is in the ROM?  It is COPYRIGHYTED SOFTWARE!
If you copy it and distribute it, with or without a disclaimer you are
pirating!  While we are on the subject, if you can approve of this then the next
logical step is to start distributing other copyrighted software with a
disclaimer.  Hm, I made a spreadsheet file with Lotus 123 so I'll just include
Lotus 123 with the file so others can read it and I'll put a disclaimer in
there....Nope, doesn't play well with me.  Piracy is piracy, in any form.  If
you have a CoCo2 sitting around fine, send it to somebody who is willing to
copy the data to a disk for you and tehey can send it and the disk to you.
Don't ask somebody, especially on an open network to engage in an illegal act
because that is exactly what you've done.  If you think that Tandy is
open minded about distributing the data on the ROM just try to buy one for a
CoCo3.  They don't sell them.  There is a good reason for this.  They have
to pay royalties for each ROM sold.  Thus they don't sell them anymore for the
CoCo3 because the paperwork to pay the royalty would negate the profit.  You
will notice though that they don't say, well it's only a ROM or two and who
will care?  No, they just don't do it because it is illegal.
Carl
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