Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!looking!brad
From: brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton)
Newsgroups: can.general
Subject: Re: Mohawks Oppose Golf Course Plan
Keywords: mohawks golf course
Message-ID: <3954@looking.on.ca>
Date: 7 Aug 89 02:30:58 GMT
References: <1930@yunccn.UUCP> <3938@looking.on.ca> <618421341.17566@telly.on.ca>
Reply-To: brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton)
Organization: Looking Glass Software Ltd.
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Class: rebuttal

ClariNet has only a marginal amount to do with it.  I have made my
living from selling information for over a decade.  I have sent
such notes whenever I have seen people pirate information, the
recent one is just one example.

It's hard to figure out which is worse -- your glib, "everybody does
it" defense, or your accusation that I post such material out of greed.

To clear your mind on the latter, I don't sell CP -- they want too much
money for the smaller market that I can sell it to.  Of course, by your
theory, I should go get it and sell it anyway, without paying, because
"everybody does it."

Indeed, newspapers do scalp stories from other papers -- rewriting them.
Any paper that took a wire item verbatim without paying for it would
hear pretty quickly from the wireservice.   Posting a clipping from a
newspaper on the wall of a restaurant isn't against the will of the
paper, as far as I know, either.

It's not as though I am unaware of the amount of information theft that
goes on.  But the audacity to defend it as an OK thing bothers me far
more.

-- 
Brad Templeton, Looking Glass Software Ltd.  --  Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473