Sunder wrote: > To add to this: > > There is no law stating that I cannot take my books and read them > backwards, skip every other word, read the odd chapters in reverse and the > even chapters forward, or try to "decode" the book by translating it to > another language, ask someone with better eyes than mine to read it to me, > or chose to wear green tinted lenses while reading it, read it to kids or > the elderly, lend it - or rent it to friends, use it as a paperweight, ^^^^^^^ this, I believe, there are laws about. At least here.
> drop it on the floor, et cetera. I can take it with me to other countries > and read it there, as well etc. Once I bought it, it's mine. Again, only within the permitted uses. For example, copying it and selling copies is clearly not permitted. -- http://www.apache-ssl.org/ben.html http://www.thebunker.net/ "There is no limit to what a man can do or how far he can go if he doesn't mind who gets the credit." - Robert Woodruff