[NTLK] h*cks, kr*ks, SN

[reilly001os at aol.com]

<snip>I still need to see an exception that provides for someone to use  
copyrighted material without proper licensing or permission from the  
copyright holder because of any of the following:

I don't like laws
I think the law is egregious
I don't have the financial means to purchase a license
I can't get a response from the copyright holder and I really want the  
copyrighted material
<snip>

Ken,
Your list seems to be a little off base for this discussion. As I stated I DO NOT use some software because I can't afford it currently and I'm sure I'm not the only person of limited means on this list that REFUSES to pirate commercial software. Besides if a software is still commercially available or supported that voids it from our discussion about SAVING AND USING SOFTWARE ABANDONED BY ITS AUTHOR. Thought I'd highlight the point of this discussion again since you seem be continually skewing it. We're not talking about this simply to mock the law, because we're poor, or because we are scallywag software pirates bent on economic and personal gain through illicit means which is what you keep implying. While points about money and the alleged errors of laws in regard to old/abandoned software have come up you seem to be mistaking them for the topic instead of what they are: simple by-products of this type of conversation. People on this list are honest and honorable from what I can see which is exactly why we're having this discussion and NOT simply swapping software (in a possibly illegal fashion).

Joe Reilly
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