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From: steve@horizon.com (Steve Flaherty)
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Subject: Re: Crackers: Innocent and Misunderstood, Says Mr. Kapor
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Date: 1 Jun 90 16:59:44 GMT
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In comp.dcom.telecom you write:

>next time you use or consider purchasing his software. If you can't
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>  find a way to steal it outright, then borrow a pirated copy from
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>  someone else.  
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Is this a serious suggestion, or are you poking fun at the situation?
If you are indeed serious about condoning piracy against a person or
organization that you personaly happen to disaprove, you deserve to be
right there in the defendants' seat the the so-called "crackers" that
you seem to abhor so vehemntly.  What seperates your call to steal
software on disk from the piracy of software (and other information)
via the phone system?  Is your moral ground so high?

Personally, I hope that your article was in jest, and that I am missing the
clues to its satirical intent.


Steve Flaherty


[Moderator's Note: What do you *really* see different about my article
versus the one in my competitor's rag other than the hoity-toity
language issued by some $50,000 a year reporter who probably knows
nothing about computers anyway?  They quote the divine Mr. K. saying
that the present government prosecution *of people who burglarize
computers and steal things therein* is 'damaging to technological
innovation and to dissemination of information'.  Now either that is a
true statement or it is bologna. All I suggested was let's take 
Super K at his word ... and let his double-speak stand on its own
merits.  Was *he* serious when he made the quote attributed to him?  PT]