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From: TE880714%STUDTEW.UFSIA.AC.BE@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU (Stef Bracke)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Piracy
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Date: 17 Nov 89 13:34:54 GMT
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I admit, I copy programs and don't pay for them.
Please understand, that till some weeks ago, I had 20 disks (I have an Apple
//GS for about 2 years now): 5 from Apple included in books and Hardware.
I bought Shangai,Paintworks,... for extremely high prices||| I also
bought a shell, assembler and editor (called SDE) which came from Holland.
$100 but worth every guilder. (I saw ORCA, it's like comparing
MS-DOS machines and Macs )
Now, I'm fed up with paying twice or more times the price you pay in the USA.
A rich friend of mine, has money enough and also a father who goes often
abroad. When he gets some new things, he comes over and fills my almost
empty 60 Meg Harddisk. Sometimes I pay him with a meal... Like the Unknow User
, I too erase all stupid programs. One of the things I like is Arkanoid.
As long as prices don't go lower overhere, I continue to copy software.
Another story are European products which are cheaper, so I buy them.
Also, If I ever have a shareware product worth keeping, I would gladly pay
for it. Only problem is, We don't have any BINSCII or SHRINKIT programs
to convert all Public Domain Soft. I'm gone look in the Netherlands for
it.
A year ago, the tought of piracy never came up.-What a unfair way to profit
from someone else program-, but now I don't know...

                          Stef from Belgium