DSWargamer -> RE: Thanks Matrix! (5/25/2014 10:29:57 AM)
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There is little value, potentially no value, in mentioning anything connected to 'law' as law in one country may well not be law in another. And that is one of the reasons a law degree is particularly valuable, as even the lawyers can't really explain most of it. The thing with law, is it isn't exact or permanent, because in a flash a moment a whim, it is possible to just re write it and poof it is no longer what it was any more. The world changed when the internet arrived. It really changed fast when www arrived. And when technology made perfect copies a simple matter, and the process something even a fairly clueless dolt could use, a lot of justifications for a lot of things became moot. Making something a law, when the law is pointless, is precisely what it sounds like. When I buy a product, and when the product can't be examined prior to the purchase, the whole legal agreement process of the installation of the product is voided in Canada. That's law. Canadian law. It's not a well known law. But it is law. In Canada. Which means every time I click yes to a legal process during an installation, I'm really just yawning and saying 'whatever' as I simply want the program installed. The agreement has no binding power, I have agreed to nothing, it is void, without power to be enforced. That won't work outside of the reach of Canadian law is all. But I am sitting in Canada. I can copy whatever I want, however I want, I can employ it however I wish, whenever I wish, as often as I wish. It is mine to exploit as I see fit. Because I have not agreed to do otherwise, provided I bought it in the usual fashion. This falls apart if I downloaded it in a fashion that Canadian law would call illegal. It's an important distinction. But it is those important distinctions that count eh. I really DO own all of my games. Nope the jargon you might employ to 'explain' I only have the right to use them, nope, remember, I never agreed to anything. It is entirely mine. It was sold to me, and with no deal entered into. Law, it is an interesting thing to discuss. But mastery of the language is usually more important than mastery of the law. I would tend to ask a university English professor about the wording of a law before I consulted a lawyer on it. The professor is a master of the words, not a master of just reading the laws.
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