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From: lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
Subject: Re: Rogue
Keywords: Rogue
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Date: 3 Jun 90 22:47:33 GMT
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In <13227@wpi.wpi.edu>, northrup@wpi.wpi.edu (Jim Northrup) writes:
>In article <1672@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca> lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips) writes:
>>Lovely. Can I paraphrase this?
>>"I'm not going to help steal it, because I don't know how."
>>
>>Yes, find one in a store and buy it. If you can't find one in a store, find
>>someone who _owns_ it, and offer to buy it. Barring all this, make do with Hack
>>or Larn or Moria.
>
>Not that I'm advocating piracy, but what should he do if the game is
>no longer in print?  If, hypothetically, the game no longer exists as
>a buy-able product, then what choice does he have but to obtain a copy
>in other ways?  And given this hypothetical situation, who would get
>hurt by the copying?  It's not like the company lost a sale, seeing as
>how they don't sell it any more.

Well, I don't know what you would do, but I would probably play Hack instead.
_Someone_ owns the rights to the game, whether it is for sale or not.

-larry

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