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From: jtreworgy@eagle.wesleyan.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Software thieves (FLAME ON!!)
Message-ID: <618@eagle.wesleyan.edu>
Date: 24 Aug 89 13:57:46 GMT
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In article <1783@ucqais.uc.edu>, pmartin@ucqais.uc.edu (Paul Martin) writes:
>> Thanks, I will keep your name and address on file so I can circulate it with
>> the lists of known and/or admitted SOFTWARE THIEVES which several developers I
>> know maintain!  Stealing is stealing!  If you take the original from the store
>> and do not return it, that is stealing.  (I assume this is why you return the
>> original to the store.)  By copying the original, you are ILLEGALY DUPLICATING
>> COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL!  YOU ARE STEALING! YOU ARE A SLIMY, LUMP OF BILE-RIDDEN
>> EXCREMENT WHO SHOULD BE LOCKED AWAY WITH THE WORST REFUSE OF HUMANITY!  I HOPE
>> YOUR BOSS FINDS OUT ABOUT YOUR LITTLE PILFERING PROJECT AND HAS YOU LOCKED UP.
>> I AM TEMPTED TO REPORT YOU TO THE NY STATE POLICE AND THE FBI AND ASK THEM TO
>> INVESTIGATE YOU BASED UPON YOUR PUBLIC ADMISSION (reprinted above).  
>> 
> 
> Ok, ok you can call people names.   But do you really believe that the
> FBI is going to waste alot of taxpayers money to hust down someone who
> copies a few games?  I think not.  Software piracy (not for money) is
> tha same thing as copying an article from a magazine from a friend or
> recording a movie off of cable for you brother-in-law and I would be
> willing to bet that 99.9% of the people reading this article would be
> guilty of some sort of piracy.  So lets cut this nonsense of "I think
> software pirates should be shot!" because almost all of us would be
> facing a firing squad if this were the way things were done.

I, as one having had pirated software pass through my disk drives, am entirely
of this opinion. But I've said this before, so I'm not going to reopen this can
of worms.

>> 
>> I urge everyone who reads this to mail a request to the postmaster at
>> pawl.rpi.edu (whose address is: usenet@rpi.edu) to have your login
>> canceled or, at least, your USENET privaleges revoked.  You are a
>> stinking theif!  You are publicly advocating theft!  You break the
>> law and urge others to break the law; you should be locked up!
>> 
> 
> I urge you to read the rules for this group about flaming!
> Instead of calling people names, why not try some constructive
> critisism.
> 

Agreed. And I think that it is completely reprehenshible to send mail to
someone's system manager because you disagree with their point of view. This is
supposed to be a public forum. Some conservative system manager might actually
take action. Maybe I should send mail (lies) to your system manager and see if
I can get your privileges revoked. If you are really concerned about illegal
activity, there are newsgroups such as alt.drugs where people people post their
opinions about more serious crimes (such as growing marijuana). Why don't you
send mail to all their system managers? I bet then you could REALLY cause some
damage.
-- 
James A. Treworgy
jtreworgy@eagle.wesleyan.edu
jtreworgy%eagle@WESLEYAN.BITNET