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From: kendrix_j@mims.enet.dec.com (John R. Kendrix)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: "Demos" and piracy
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Date: 12 Jul 90 15:33:20 GMT
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In article <MOFO.90Jul11170426@bucsf.bu.edu>, mofo@bucsf.bu.edu (jason greene) writes..

>I don't believe that removing the "red sector demo" or any other demo that
>is obviously supporting a pirate or a group is censorship.  

I think removing the demo *IS* censorship.  If you find it so offensive, why
not just clean it up!!  You know, everyone of those demos come with a text
file, which has the offensive numbers in it etc.  Why not simply edit the file
to say, 'Piracy hurts us all, please don't pirate software!', or use it to
promote world peace...  Or, if you wanted to be very clever, then change the
phone number of the Pirate boards, to a Paris Interpol number etc...

>Don't get me wrong; a lot of the demos are quite incredible feats of
>graphic and sound programming, and deserve to be praised.

Exactly, so praise them, and leave out the rest...  It would be different if
you couldn't do anything about it!

Cheers,

JK