as far as I am concerned, STUFF! THE! STUPID! LAW! also, I didn't get "that end user license agreement" with my version of the realspeak voices anyway, so therefore, don't consider myself bound by it.
Simon ----- Original Message ----- From: "Thomas Ward" <thomasward1...@gmail.com> To: "Gamers Discussion list" <gamers@audyssey.org> Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2012 5:12 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Scansoft Realspeak Voices and 64-bit Windows Hi Simon, Yes, its absolutely software piracy. It makes no difference if Nuance, Freedom Scientific, etc makes it available or not. The law is the law. It amazes me how many people fail to understand copyright law. It is all rapped up in that end user license agreement you get with your software product. If it says you are not to resell, share, or redistribute the software with a third-party that is exactly what it means. If the company decides to stop selling the product it does not suddenly make it legal to share the software with a third-party. The end user license agreement is still legally enforcible in the United States, Canida, United Kingdom, and wherever else the software was sold. I would agree with many that this sucks, is often unfair, but that is the way copyright law works. Believe me when I say I'm not a fan of copyright law. If I legally could I'd give the software away too. However, as our list attempts to keep everything on the up and up I can not legally just pass on the voices to anyone who wants a copy. Cheers! On 7/18/12, goshawk on horseback <goshawk_on_horseb...@fastmail.co.uk> wrote: > not really, as they are not technically available any more, so does that > really matter? > I got mine as a download in the first place, so I am not even passing them > on from an original disk either. > > Simon > --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
