[Icom] Service Manuals on CD

[Mark]

The discussion SHOULD include one fact, too ... that in many cases people
have their ICOM manual that they have misplaced .. and have in fact bought
it in the first place.   Not the same thing as not ever paying for someone'
copyrighted work.  If I own a manual, I will put it on CD for my convenience
.. that is legal ... as long as I own the original.   Perhaps I would like
someone else to do that work, or, I don't have the facilities ?????
I downloaded several thousand songs from NAPSTER ... but they were already
purchased by me, I have hundreds of CDs and cassettes ... was in that biz
for years .. just wanted them in MP3 form, so no artist was "skunked" by me!
ICOM is to be "kissed" for putting operational manuals on the web ... thank
you, oh gurus at the Big EyE ..!!
73, Y'all ... Mark  AA6DX

----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris BONDE" <ve7hcb@rac.ca>
To: <icom@mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Sunday, February 24, 2002 9:55 PM
Subject: Re: [Icom] Service Manuals on CD


> I agree with you about pirated copies of respectable firms.
> I just hope that the radio industry doesnot go the way of using the
> copyright to blackmail the user.  That is the main reason that I can see
> that most of the music pirates are supported.
> Chris opr VE7HCB
>
>
> At 02:16 PM 2002-02-24 -0500, you wrote:
> >Hi, everyone,
> > >
> > > They are pirated copies of the manuals.  Someone has scanned the
> > > copyrighted Icom manuals, put them on a CD and is selling them.  If
you
> > > normally buy pirated software this won't bother you.  If you would
prefer
> > > not to buy stolen goods, it will.