Path: utzoo!attcan!lsuc!maccs!johns
From: johns@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Conan the Barbarian)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: ST S/ware Rental Places
Summary: The point is valid
Keywords: Software , rental, atari, st
Message-ID: <25B5F9E8.29619@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca>
Date: 18 Jan 90 17:16:24 GMT
References: <2625@cunixc.cc.columbia.edu> <25723@brunix.UUCP> <1990Jan17.065533.601@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
Reply-To: johns@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Conan the Barbarian)
Organization: McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario
Lines: 40

In article <1990Jan17.065533.601@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> gl8f@astsun.astro.Virginia.EDU (Greg Lindahl) writes:
>In article <25723@brunix.UUCP> rjd@cs.brown.edu (Rob Demillo) writes:
>>
>>Yeah. And with any luck they'll *all* go out of business. Piracy
>>has almost killed Atari...that's all that's needed is a thinly
>>veiled software "rental" place.
>
>Needless to say, it's extremely rude to call some people pirates
>because they rent software. Libraries rent books, video stores rent
>movies. Video stores rent Nintendo carts, which contain software.
>

     I think Mr. Demillo has a very valid point there.  Besides the 3 Atari
    dealers we have in this city of approx. 300K, we have a few MIDI
    dealers, and another dealer who does not carry the Atari line 
    anymore.  It is known as a Computer/Electronics/Software rental
    store.  I think that is their term for "We pirate while you wait."
    I've been there and seen first hand how people who work there make
    copies of software either for themselves or friends.  

    Thankfully, Atari refused his request to become a dealer, and his
    stock of ST software is abysmally small.

>In short -- piracy is an issue you deal with by educating users, not
>by insulting legitimate businesses.
>

    This works on some people, and on some it doesn't.  The people
    that pirate in spite of anything you tell them are beyond hope.
    I don't know how to convince them to stop.  

>[...]
>Greg Lindahl
>gl8f@virginia.edu                                  Astrophysicists for Choice.


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