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RE: [dvd-discuss]2600 DROPS DECSS APPEAL



It all seems like very thinly disguised marketing.  The reality is that
there are very few benefits of upgrading, and
in inverse proportion to the utility of upgrading, goes the hostility of
Microsoft's  Anti-piracy mail.  So in reality what you have is a dying
monopoly desperately grasping for revenue in a last ditch attempt to stay
alive... this is the legacy
of Bill Gates' contribution to "intellectual property rights."  I suspect
that the DMCA is largely funded by the same monopoly.

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From: owner-dvd-discuss@eon.law.harvard.edu
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Sent: Friday, July 05, 2002 4:00 PM
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Subject: Re: [dvd-discuss]2600 DROPS DECSS APPEAL


You're lucky. At least you don't have the fascist MIS police telling you "we
don't support any of those DOS applications [as if they EVER truly did] and
the
only thing we support is Windows2000[which they haven't a clue about],
Office2000..blah blah blah..."

On 5 Jul 2002 at 11:24, Ronald Austin wrote:

From:           	Ronald Austin <ronald@caprock-spur.com>
To:             	dvd-discuss@eon.law.harvard.edu
Subject:        	Re: [dvd-discuss]2600 DROPS DECSS APPEAL
Date sent:      	Fri, 5 Jul 2002 11:24:20 -0400
Send reply to:  	dvd-discuss@eon.law.harvard.edu

> On Thursday 04 July 2002 12:09 pm, you wrote:
> > Jeremy Erwin wrote:
>
> >
> > Dear [small business owner],
> >
> > If you own any Microsoft products, then I strongly recommend that you
take a
> > few minutes to read this letter.
>
> <Snip>
>
>      I haven't gotten one of these yet, but I got one like it about 3 mos.
ago.
> They will sure be disappointed to find that the only MS OS running around
here
> is DOS 5.? on an old 486 used as a cash register. My original floppys have
died
> a long time ago and I no longer have the recipt..  Do you think they will
fine
> me for using an OS thats no longer supported? ;-)
>      I have thought about changing it to DR-DOS but  since it works just
fine I
> have just left it the way it is. It's been sitting under the counter since
1991
> and I am almost afraid to move it.
>
>
> Ronald