Re: [sword-devel] Distribution/Copyright issues

2002-09-06 Thread Jerry Hastings
At 03:21 AM 9/7/2002 +0800, Christian Renz wrote: >... but of course this is not a way to get text for (even locked) The locked modules scare me. I try to say away from them. Jerry

Re: [sword-devel] Distribution/Copyright issues

2002-09-06 Thread Christian Renz
>It is good that you are not advocating it. For those who may not know, this >kind of process is something that we should probably always stay away from. Yes, I second that. I only did it because I was curious and it was easy :-) but of course this is not a way to get text for (even locked) mod

Re: [sword-devel] Distribution/Copyright issues

2002-09-06 Thread Jerry Hastings
It is good that you are not advocating it. For those who may not know, this kind of process is something that we should probably always stay away from. Because, in the US the DMCA law and in many other countries similar laws now make it a crime to "circumvent an access control." It is even a v

Re: [sword-devel] Distribution/Copyright issues

2002-09-06 Thread Jordan Wiens
Along those lines, many online ebook places use your credit card number and expiration to decrypt the encrypted file. Of course, this assumes you are unable to crack the decryption engine so that it outputs the raw (unencrypted) text after you've entered the CC, allowing the unencrypted version t

[sword-devel] Distribution/Copyright issues

2002-09-06 Thread Christian Renz
>conditions. I would be surprised if they didn't have some kind of 'no >modification allowed' clause, or restricted copying or restricted >printing. Actually, sword isn't at much of a disadvantage here. Even the format of some closed-source bible apps is well known, so that the text could be extr