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From: genghis@ilces.ag.uiuc.edu (Scott Coleman)
Newsgroups: alt.games.doom,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,alt.cd-rom
Subject: Re: WAD AUTHORS - READ THIS - DOOM WAD CD response
Date: 2 Sep 94 14:32:13 GMT
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
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wperko@ix.netcom.com (Walt Perko) writes:
>BTW, many CD-ROM's like this do not make all that much money anyway. It
>is hardly worth shareing the profits in many cases unless the CD-ROM becomes
>the defacto standard of the industry and has exclusive sales.
If CD-ROMs "don't make all that much money" then why do the CD-ROM producers
go to all the trouble and significant up-front expense of producing them?
Even more potentially troublesome, why would a CD-ROM producer risk his
livelihood by stealing copyrighted works? If the profit marginds are as thin
as you say, all it would take would be one lawsuit to but that CD-ROM
producer out of business (he's go bankrupt paying for his legal defense).
Seems to me that some of the people producing CD-ROMs are totally
clueless about the copyright laws, and are setting themselves up for a
BIG fall.
--
Scott Coleman, President ASRE (American Society of Reverse Engineers)
asre@uiuc.edu
Life is temporally limited - drive velocitously!!