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Empire falls.(letters to the editor)(Letter to the Editor)

By Hamm, Peter
Publication: EMedia, The Digital Studio Magazine
Date: Saturday, November 1 2003

Doug Skoglund's letter in the August 2003 issue of EMedia ("Blows Against the Empire") was very, well-written and seemed very balanced, except for some crucial misinformation, which renders much of what he says moot.

Skoglund asserts that purchasing content or receiving it via broadcast means he has the right to do whatever he wants with it except distribute copies." None of us has ever bought a single piece of Microsoft software. We have merely licensed it. That license us

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