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From: mattd@Apple.COM (Matt Deatherage)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: RE: piracy
Message-ID: <36425@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 13 Nov 89 14:57:17 GMT
References: <8911121022.AA17345@trout.nosc.mil> <5724@lindy.Stanford.EDU>
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In article <5724@lindy.Stanford.EDU> unknown@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (The Unknown User) writes:
>
>	I do not feel guilty in copying garbage software like Gauntlet GS.
>Only in the past few months have I felt guilty for giving software a
>"test drive" (that's sort of how I perceive it) unless it's really good
>software. I have felt a little guilty about things like Copy II Plus,
>Xenocide, and ProTERM and am in the process of finding the cheapest mail
>order prices for them to buy them. Sort of for Arkanoid (I and II) too.
>Those are the -only- pieces of software that I have found WORTHY enough
>of being paid for in about 5 years of computing. Oh, I forgot. I bought
>Pharaoh's Revenge for $5 by a deal I saw in A+ a few months
>before A+ died. The other things I try out then delete when I get bored
>of them. I will buy Ultima V GS if it ever comes out... It was advertized
>at AppleFest SF --88--..
>
>	When I find more software that is so useful and well made that 
>I use it very often, I will pay for it. Otherwise, I don't feel I'm
>doing anything IMMORAL whatsoever. It's technically illegal, but not
>immoral. That's a lot different. (Just like some other person mentioned
>pot... He doesn't think that's immoral even though it's illegal. Just
>for the record, I feel it's immoral AND we know it's illegal).

"I got a copy of this game and played it for about two weeks and then it
wasn't challenging anymore.  Of course I'm not gonna buy it; it's no good."
Yeah, right.  Self-justification reaches new highs.

I'll bet you wish you could go to a restaurant and order whatever you liked,
and then decide after eating it if it was worth the menu price or not (and if
it is, go to some other restaurant to buy the same dish as cheaply as
possible).  It don't work that way.

In our economy, if you don't like what the producer produces, you don't buy it.
You don't just take it and then decide if you want to pay for it or not.  Any
other description is just self-justification for illegal activities, no matter
how you slice it.

>--
>unknown@ucscb.ucsc.edu	Please use the former address. The latter is provided
>unknown@darkside.com	provided just in case you can't contact the former. 

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