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From: fors@ndmath.UUCP (Guy Fors)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Piracy
Message-ID: <1517@ndmath.UUCP>
Date: 4 Aug 89 21:39:08 GMT
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Chuck McManis writes:
 
> From that point on you missed the point. A society as a whole has
> morals, and those morals are written down in the laws they make.
> Copying software is undeniably illegal, and by definition, society
> as a whole considers it to be immoral. 
> 
> Be _definition_, anyone breaking the law is antisocial. That's true
> if you go 60MPH in a 55MPH zone, or you pirate software. 
> 
> be convicted of theft. If it is the moral responsibility of every citizen
> to obey the laws it is also the moral responsibility to report to the
> enforcement arm of society when they are broken. 
> 
	 Morality???  You really want to put someone with some pirate
software in jail when confessed criminals (like Nixon) are free.  Sure
we need morals but lets start at the top of the pile and work our way
down to Joe Average.  Lets voice our moral opinion and put CEO of 
companies that pollute the environment in prision.  Insurance 
Companies are some of the biggest crooks ever invented, should they be in
jail as well.  Give your head a shake, if you're that interested in morality
do something about the worst abusers. Until then flush twice before posting
garbage about the evils of software piracy.

Guy Fors