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In article <cYLscby00WB64AAJAO@andrew.cmu.edu> al1f+@andrew.cmu.edu (Andy A. Lee) writes:
>William Bumgarner,
>
>     You have just brought yourself a lawsuit with your "Meobius patch
>(deprotection) and warning" message.  How?  First, publically you admitted
>that you 'alternated' the Moebius source code without written permission of
>the author.  Such alternation is in DIRECT violation of the copyright law.

Well, the first thing we can see is that Lee knows a lot less about the law
than he thinks. Things are not nearly so clearcut as this.

>Second, it would be extremely easy for any lawyer to prove that your message
>causes Moebius's author to loose sale on the software.  You are responsible
>for any lost of sale due to your message, i.e. those who are going to buy
>a copy of the game now can 'copy' from their friends.  The money lost in
>sale could add up to serveral times your Carnegie Mellon tuition.

The second thing we see is that Lee has a penchant for wild exageration.
"Extremely easy??"  "Several times your C-M tuition??"

>     It is perfectly legal to express your experiences with Moebius (and its
>author company), but to post deprotection procedures is down right ILLEGAL,
>irresponsible, and stupid.  Think twice next time you decide to boast...
>
>Andy A. Lee
>al1f@andrew.cmu.edu

More bogus information posted as facts. Also, I remember (years ago) BBSs
where people who posted this kind of message might well be boasting. Here
it is a public service message, since nobody is terribly impressed by a
simple patch- just grateful.

Now that I've posted calmly and rationally, ***** FLAME ON! *****

I have seen, once or twice in different groups, people talking about how
they had put certain other people in their news "Kill" files. I've never
understood the need to do that, until now. Lee has bought himself the
first and only spot in my Kill file. His obnoxious posting looks like a
bad parody of me on my worst days, and I hope never to have the misfortune
of reading something like it again (faint hope, I'm sure :-( ).

Lee, if you're such a hot lawyer, why don't you write for the local law
journal? Crap like that wastes bandwidth.

Flame off.

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Alexis Rosen
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alexis@rascal.ics.utexas.edu  (last resort)