Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!yale!eagle!jtreworgy From: jtreworgy@eagle.wesleyan.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Piracy, prosecution, & thanks to PD writers Message-ID: <348@eagle.wesleyan.edu> Date: 4 Aug 89 11:37:04 GMT References: <10466@boulder.Colorado.EDU> Lines: 36 In article <10466@boulder.Colorado.EDU>, rademach@tramp.Colorado.EDU (Simon Rademacher) writes: > In article kudla@pawl.rpi.edu (Robert J. Kudla) writes: >>Have I pirated? Yeah, plenty, but not much on the Amiga. On the C64 > > Hmm, is this a confession? I wonder if this would stand in court? Perhaps > the authorities should be called. Won't Robert be suprised when an FBI > agent shows up at his door with a search warrent? Even if his statement > above won't go far in prosecuting him, it probably could get a search > warrent out, and then his stash of illegal copies would do the rest. > > Hey, maybe this is how to stop piracy. Just get everybody to brag on the > net of how much they've pirated, and have the FBI listen in. They'd better > start hiring LOTS of agents. :-) > > Robert also comments about not being able to afford the programs. Hey, > neither can I--that's why I have < 5. But I have tons of PD stuff and its > great! So allow me to take this opportunity to thank all the writers--Great > job people! Sorry, but to list all their names would take pages. > From my experience with "PD" stuff on the AMIGA, there is very little. Most freely distributable software on the Amiga is ShareWare. If you are so pure, send me copies of the checks you wrote to every author of the "tons" of shareware stuff you use. Pages, huh? Amazing how you could afford it but can't afford any commercial stuff. > ======================================= > = Simon Rademacher = > = rademach%tramp@boulder.colorado.edu = -- James A. Treworgy "You should have seen me with the poker man, jtreworgy@eagle.wesleyan.edu I had a honey and I bet a grand, jtreworgy%eagle@WESLEYAN.BITNET Just in the nick of time I looked at his hand" Box 5033 Wesleyan Station -Paul McCartney Middletown, CT 06475