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From: mxmora@unix.SRI.COM (Matt Mora)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Software Priacy
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Date: 15 Jun 90 16:01:30 GMT
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In article <3205@husc6.harvard.edu> siegel@endor.UUCP (Rich Siegel) writes:
>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.

> Rich Siegel

Look at it this way; If you borrow your friends brand new car stereo, insert it
in to a duplicating machine, and out popped a perfect copy, I think there would
be a lot more car stereo pirates. who does it hurt? Not your friend because
you didn't steal it from him, you gave back the car stereo. It hurts the
dealers and the manufacturer.

In an early post you used a car as an example. I forget the car you 
mentioned but you said that you couldn't afford it so you would do without.
You would not go steal the Car. Now what if you could borrow the car,drive it
through a duplicating machine and out came a perfect copy. At no cost to
you. Would you do that?

[Rich I'm not accusing or trying to imply that you could be a crook. I ment
you in the above example as a general you, not you personnally Rich.]


Just some random blabbing...


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