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From: cmcmanis%pepper@Sun.COM (Chuck McManis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: No more Cinemaware stuff for Amiga !!!????
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Date: 24 Jul 89 21:50:52 GMT
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Piracy is around because as a culture we haven't figured out how to 
punish the criminals sufficiently or accurately yet. However, the
reason people bitch about piracy on the ST and Amiga and yet don't
complain so much about piracy on the C64, IBM, and Mac is because
there are so many of these machines out there that if even 50% of the
owners pirated software, capturing 10% of the remaining 50% is enough
marketshare to make it worthwile to develop software for them. 
12,000,000 IBM pc compatibles is a huge number. The 400,000 or so
Amigas in the US on the other hand can't afford to lose any sales
to people with retarded morals. There are several ways to fight 
piracy, so far the most successful has been to make the market 
so large that piracy doesn't seriously impact your ability to develop
software.


--Chuck McManis
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