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From: dca@toylnd.UUCP (David C. Albrecht)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: No more Cinemaware stuff for Amiga !!!????
Message-ID: <284@toylnd.UUCP>
Date: 7 Aug 89 16:05:56 GMT
References: <9180.AA9180@heimat> <1989Jul30.210112.10525@ddsw1.MCS.COM>   <21023@cup.portal.com>
Organization: Dave & Anne, Charlottesville VA.
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In article <21023@cup.portal.com>, silver@cup.portal.com (Jim B Howard) writes:
> To the person who compares copying software to stealing a diamond
> 
> ring, you forget that in the case of software, the person
> only loses potential profits.  In the case of the diamond, the
> person loses physical assets, which are definatly measurable.
> So the analogy is invalid.
BFD.  
X people buy my program, I take the profits and buy a
diamond ring.  X people steal my program, no diamond ring.  The
people that stole my program have deprived me of that diamond ring
as surely as if they broke in and stole it from my house.  That the
theft takes the form of not paying me for goods and services which
they have benefitted by and then not given me proper compensation
rather than via the theft of actual physical assets I would contend
is irrelevant hair splitting.  I find the analogy perfectly reasonable.

You know the thing that amazes me about piracy?  Not that 12 year old
kids do it.  I'm a software engineer and I've always been amazed by the
number of Computer Science students that practice it.  Here we have a
person that after graduation at least hopes to make their living writing
software and at the same time they are robbing people in their own
profession of just compensation.  Boggles the mind.

David Albrecht