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From: kmagel@plains.UUCP (ken magel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: software piracy
Message-ID: <5023@plains.UUCP>
Date: 14 Jun 90 15:11:14 GMT
Reply-To: kmagel@plains.UUCP (ken magel)
Organization: North Dakota State University, Fargo
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    The best explanation I've seen for why many people so easily and guiltlessly steal software is that the person from whom they copy the software is not hurt
at all - the victim is some faceless, probably large, company.  When you steal
a car radio or a car, you hurt the person who had the radio or car.  When you
steal software, the other person still has all the use of that software that
they had before your theft.  Just think of the cases you read about in the 
newspaper or see on TV of people sueing for ridiculous reasons because after 
all the faceless insurance company will be the only one that pays anyway.