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From: JKT100@psuvm.psu.edu (JKT)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: "Demos" and piracy
Message-ID: <90194.230146JKT100@psuvm.psu.edu>
Date: 14 Jul 90 03:01:46 GMT
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In article <TADGUY.90Jul10195244@abcfd20.larc.nasa.gov>,
tadguy@abcfd01.larc.nasa.gov (Tad Guy) says:
>
>Jason greene writes:
>> I think that supporting these demos is akin to supporting the pirates
>> themselves, and should be stopped.
>
>Let me make sure I understand you correctly.  You're suggesting that
>because these people pirate software, then their legitimate products
>shouldn't be seen?
>
>Hmm...  Analogy: Because someone's ideology (for example, Jew,
>Christian, whatever) doesn't agree with yours, then that's persons
>contributions (say, music, or artwork) shouldn't be seen.
>
>Nope.  I don't like it.  Sounds like censorship to me.

How about a better analogy?   Because someone committed a crime, and
is convicted of it, they are sentenced to pay a fine or penalty, which
is taken from honestly earned money.

Censorship is not a proper analogy.  These are people who broke the
law, and the law was not one that banned publication or such.  It was
one that PROTECTED peoples' hard-work from theft.  What he is saying is
that these people steal, and should be penalized by not distributing
their work, whether it be honest work or not.


<<No sides taken... I don't pirate, but I do have some pirate demos>>

                                                            Kurt
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