In article <d2s5q7$t5p$>,
Nicholas Sherlock wrote:
What if you don’t have a CD-writer, and the only way to get a backup of your software is to buy a backup for a small fee from a seller? This is why ‘backup’ copies of many copies of software can be sold without the seller being shut down.
No. The seller does not get shut down because the seller does not appear on Adobe’s radar.
The law allows you to make a backup; it does not allow you to give it to someone else for archival purposes. If you do not have a CD recorder, you can go to Kinko’s and use theirs, or you can give your original factory CD to your buddy who has a CD recorder and let him make a backup for you, provided you take back the original and all copies. You can not buy a recorded CD from someone who is making and selling hundreds of copies of *his* original disc.
Of course, the entire myth about "backup copies" is utterly destroyed when you realize that those so-called "backup copies" come with a serial number–which is clearly and blatantly a violation of the licensing agreement.
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