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From: siegel@endor.harvard.edu (Rich Siegel)
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Subject: Re: Software Priacy
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Date: 14 Jun 90 01:13:08 GMT
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In article <31594@ut-emx.UUCP> eggplant@walt.cc.utexas.edu (johan van Zanten) writes:
>
>   There's been alot of insightful discussion about piracy, but the simple
>reason that it exists is because copying a program is 
>physically completely different than stealing
>car radios.  (Aside: Most people who steal car stereos sell them for money.
>This is not the case with software; there are different motives at work.)

	Why are the motives any different? The car stereo theif makes money
by selling stolen property, by the software pirate (a) saves money by not 
spending it on the package, and (b) makes money by being productive with the
software he's stolen.

	Depending on the type of software stolen, the translation from stolen
software to income may be more or less direct. An extreme case might be some
person stealing a compiler and writing a best-selling piece of software with
it, or using a stolen PageMaker and stolen fonts to start a service bureau
operating out of his house.

R.

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