MSDN CD disposition

[Fred Cisin]

>> But, if you were to ask for a FORMAL policy statement, then they would have 
>> to consult their legal department, and assert their IP rights.
>> (There is no legal recognition of any concept of "abandonware")
>> 
On Wed, 31 Oct 2018, geneb wrote:
> The default answer would be "no".  Any other answer requires work and would 
> not be pursued.
EXACTLY.

>> Since there is nothing on them that would identify you, there are a number 
>> of people who would gladly help you to properly dispose of them.
>
> Only if you mean "Upload to the Internet Archive" when you write "dispose". 
> ;)

Did I ask for trivial petty details of how you would go about destroying 
and disposing?
So long as you assure me that destruction and disposal are done 
"properly", then I would just have to assume that you do it right.


Analogous situation:
A friend and his girlfriend were both on the same expensive prescription 
med.  When he was switched to a different one, she took care of complete 
biological disposal of his leftovers.  Should there be an investigation of 
whether she complied with the official procedures?


Although there is absolutely no sort of legal acknowledgement of the 
concept of "abandonware", there are some situations where prosecution is 
not deemed worth attempting:
BBC is aware that [unauthorized, not great quality] copies of "Hyperland" 
are on the web.
https://archive.org/details/DouglasAdams-Hyperland
They seem to have chosen not to enforce their IP.
I hope that they don't decide to prosecute me for creating 
subtitles/captions for it.  (there WAS a Swedish subtitle distribution 
database that was shut down (not for "Hyperland", and probably not by 
BBC))
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4hCJm9ZEADCblVSVlBxdmZyREU/view?usp=drive_web
(400MB video with subtitles burned in)
.SRT file:
http://www.xenosoft.com/HyperlandCAPS_En_US_0_77.srt
Finding some of the typos would be VERY appreciated!
(eg. I was not previously aware of what an "ice lolly" is; a "popsicle"?, 
and I hope nobody takes offence at my inconsistent spelling of things 
such as "favourite colour grey")


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Grumpy Ol' Fred     		cisin at xenosoft.com