I, also have no objection to copyright laws: indeed, they are there to
protect us from people pinching our work.
The things I object to are as follows:
1. The concept behind copyright is to make sure the copyright holder
profits from their work.
1.1. If the copyright holder is not making further
As the one who started this thread, I just wanted to say I agree wholeheartedly
with Richard in his attitude to copyright works. My own problem arose (long
ago) when in Richard’s words, I tried to reach the creator (strictly speaking
the copyright owner, as the work includes copyright material f
Thank you, Richsrd Gaskin.
On Mon, 24 Jan 2022, 03:26 Richard Gaskin via use-livecode, <
use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> Thank you for the mention, Jeff. Without your adding that here I would
> have missed Richmond's reference; he's among a small number of members I
> generally don't read
Thank you for the mention, Jeff. Without your adding that here I would
have missed Richmond's reference; he's among a small number of members I
generally don't read anymore (so much to learn, so little signal in a
noisy world...)
FWIW I agree with what you wrote, and felt it was important enou
Richmond,
And I’ll be right there with Richard.
Just because it’s not being supported does not remove copyrights. You know
that’s a stupid argument. Maybe fine with your own morals but it’s not how
copyright works. As a content creator for over 4 decades of my professional
life I really hate t
Graham,
Having created a bunch of commercial interactive cdroms back in those days of
early commercial interactivity, I can say they can be a challenge to mine all
the necessary content from them and determine the whole flow chart of content
and interactivity. I did this a few times on my own p
CD ROM? Luxury! - We used to store all our data on clay tablets and stored
them in holes in the ground.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue7wM0QC5LE
On Sun, 23 Jan 2022 at 12:59, Graham Samuel via use-livecode <
use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> I know I’m old enough to be the father of th
Between Feb 1992 when I moved to the US, and May 1995, most of the floppy disks
and CD-ROMs I programmed were done in HyperCard. Any of those would be easy
enough to hack. I had been doing the Mac version, and other companies would do
the PC version. From May 1995, being cross platform right awa
I have a good dozen CD-ROMs which my boys got a lot of mileage out of
when we stayed in the UAE.
The first thing to do is to extract all the media - and this can be a
right-pain-in-the-bum as quite a lot of
these CDs were authored using MacroMedia products where the media are
embedded in a way
