Diacom Cable

[Eric Clark]

On Tue, 30 Nov 1999, Mike Wesley wrote:

> dhardin at ovec.com wrote:
> > 
> > I usually try to stay out of most issues, but.....
> > 
> > Obviously if sombody is selling something by copying it that's too far.  But as
> > far as I am concerned  I bought a GM car and the computer and the EPROM inside
> > is mine not GM's.
> 
> Sort of true. You own the car and all it's parts..including the EPROM
> inside it.
> But you are granted an inherent license to use *thier* program which
> runs in the EPROM. GM still owns the program and it is copyrighted with
> the feds.

Really, where's the end user license agreement thats for my car?

> Actually they do. They just don't think it's worth the time/effort to
> protect it.

because they know they'd lose.

> Look at it this way. Go buy a new copy of any software program you want.
> Is it legal to install it on your machine then post the files off the CD
> on the net for everyone else to download. Not really.

If that program didnt come with an End User License agreement, they
probably cant do anything but bark at you to stop.


-Eric