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From: unknown@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (The Unknown User)
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Subject: Re: RE: piracy
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Date: 14 Nov 89 06:39:16 GMT
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In article <36425@apple.Apple.COM> mattd@Apple.COM (Matt Deatherage) writes:
>"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.

	No, it's not that I played a game for two weeks, solved it or
something like that, then "it wasn't challenging anymore." My, and many other
people's example, of a piece of junk piece of software is Gauntlet GS. It
wasn't even fun to play mostly because the controlling of the guy was so
hard, if I remember correctly. Shouldn't I be able to use that for a little
while to see if it's good enough to pay for? It's not, so I don't have
it anymore.

	And, even if I -DID- have it still have it, it wouldn't be like
eating dinner in a restaurant. This is my one idea how it's different from
"stealing" something else. Other things are PHYSICAL, you are getting
something physically valuable if you are getting it without paying for it,
EVEN IF YOU WOULDN'T HAVE BOUGHT IT ANYWAY.  But even though lots and lots
of money and resources are put into making software, if I would not have
bought it anyway, which is usually the case, they are not losing money.

	I honestly believe that I'd be a -MUCH BETTER- programmer if it were
not for piracy as I'd program my own utilities because I'm so cheap! And as
I've already said, things like ProTERM and CopyIIPlus are good enough that
I use them very very regularly and they deserve to be paid for.

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