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DEAD OR ALIVE Xtreme Beach Volleyball and all of its contents, including audio and visual contents, are protected under the copyright and other laws of the United States of America and other countries.
DEAD OR ALIVE Xtreme Beach Volleyball is licensed only for non-commercial use.
All of the audio and visual contents, including still images and streaming video (motion) images used in this software are licensed only for non-commercial use.
Except as expressly authorized, it is strictly porhibited to reproduce, distribute, exhibit or modify this software and any of its contents, including audio and visual contents. By way of example, to capture, copy or download any of the contents in this software, including audio and visual contents,onto any harware or other software source media for any purpose, by the Internet or any other source, is strictly prohibited.
Reversed engineering, decompiling or disassembly of this software is also strictly prohibited.
The Federal Law provides severe civil and criminal penalties for the unauthorized reproduction, distribution or exhibition of copyrighted software or still or streaming visual images (Title 17, Untied States Code, Sections 501 and 506).
The Federal Bureau of Investigation investigates allegations of criminal copyright infringements (Title 17, United States Code, Section 506).
Now correct me if I'm wrong, but according to this "warning" - when you buy the game, you have just purchased a non-commerical license for the game. Therefore, if you dont sell any reproduced, reverse engineered, or any other content fromt the game - you can do whatever you like with it. In the above warning, tecmo warns that:
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"it is strictly porhibited to reproduce, distribute, exhibit or modify this software and any of its contents, including audio and visual contents. By way of example, to capture, copy or download any of the contents in this software, including audio and visual contents,onto any harware or other software source media for any purpose, by the Internet or any other source, is strictly prohibited."
Thats just what I like to call a scare clause. The say its prohibited and whatnot, but it really isnt under any law. There is no law under the United States Code that Tecmo repeated refers to that says you cannot reproduce, distribute, exhibit or modify software and its contents. IN FACT: Title 17 of the United States Code, Section 117,
specifically states that
YOU CAN make a copy or adaptation of
ANY software, provided you do not claim to own the original rights to the game and that your explorations are for archival porposes only and not for financiall gain.
Title 17 of the United States Code, Section 117:
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117 Limitations on exclusive rights: Computer programs
(a) MAKING OF ADDITIONAL COPY OR ADAPTATION BY OWNER OF COPY. Notwithstanding the provisions of section 106, it is not an infringement for the owner of a copy of a computer program to make or authorize the making of another copy or adaptation of that computer program provided:
(1) that such a new copy or adaptation is created as an essential step in the utilization of the computer program in conjunction with a machine and that it is used in no other manner, or
(2) that such new copy or adaptation is for archival purposes only and that all archival copies are destroyed in the even that continued possession of the computer program should cease to be rightful.
Maybe I just have wishful thinking, but as far as I know, ninjahacker has violated no law.
