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<FONT FACE="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12.0px'>This doesn’t have much to do with DRM mechanisms, but it’s an interesting little footnote to EA’s history of copy protection....maybe call it the pre-web attitude to copying. It’s a snippet from the Command Summary document found in “Robot Rascals” (published by EA in 1987):<BR>
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“For your convenience, “Robot Rascals” is not copy protected so that you can easily make <B>one</B> backup copy for your own use, or install the program on <B>your own</B> RAM or hard disk. Please show us that copy protection is unnecessary -- <B>do not give copies of this product away</B>. Thank you.” [emphasis in the original doc]<BR>
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Very polite :)<BR>
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Zach<BR>
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On 4/2/09 12:28 PM, "Andrew Armstrong" <andrew@aarmstrong.org> wrote:<BR>
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</SPAN></FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12.0px'>That, along with Henry's comments, really does make it seem like the<BR>
most sucky system ever - what I'd half expect from laws of course.<BR>
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Either we'll have to look to propose something for next year (I presume<BR>
it runs yearly) somehow if anyone is interested, else the Americans on<BR>
this list might be having legal troubles with some of their efforts, or<BR>
just, well, let it all lapse!<BR>
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No idea about how to coordinate it however. I'm not American, good luck<BR>
letting a UK citizen into the USA law books and procedures ;) It'd have<BR>
to be sorted, I guess, between the digital archives, libraries and the<BR>
Library of Congress.<BR>
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Andrew<BR>
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Rachel "Sheepy" Donahue wrote:<BR>
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>> A question to the procedure: Is it necessary, to propose that an<BR>
>> exemption should be keept every three years again after it was<BR>
>> granted first? Or does it remain automaticly until someone proposes<BR>
>> that it should be canceled?<BR>
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>> Andreas<BR>
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> I looked at this a bit more in depth in the fall, and looked at the<BR>
> list of proposals up for review, and this one was not included. I am<BR>
> fairly sure that someone has to sponsor it for it to remain.<BR>
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