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From: kassover@minerva.crd.ge.com (David Kassover)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: software piracy
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Date: 14 Jun 90 19:22:08 GMT
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In article <5023@plains.UUCP> kmagel@plains.UUCP (ken magel) writes:
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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.

And just where do they think the "faceless, probably large"
company gets it's money from, anyway?

Or is it that they simply do not think?
--
David Kassover             "Proper technique helps protect you against
kassover@ra.crd.ge.com	    sharp weapons and dull judges."
kassover@crd.ge.com			F. Collins