On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 11:02:39PM +0200, Francesco Poli wrote: > On Tue, 29 Jun 2004 23:22:12 +0100 Andrew Suffield wrote: > > > Nintendo are the only ones I'm aware of that try to pretend console > > emulators aren't legal (sheer sophistry though; they claim outright > > "this thing is illegal because it can be used for illegal purposes"). > > This is what I call the "anti-screwdriver claim": following this line of > reasoning you could argue that a screwdriver is illegal, because it can > be used for illegal purposes (e.g. killing someone by thrusting the > screwdriver in his/her throat). Funny how that should spring to mind in reply to a paragraph about Nintendo's lawyers. Can't imagine why. :) -- G. Branden Robinson | If you make people think they're Debian GNU/Linux | thinking, they'll love you; but if branden@debian.org | you really make them think, they'll http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | hate you. -- Don Marquis
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