Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!mcgill-vision!snorkelwacker!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!ncar!boulder!ccncsu!handel.CS.ColoState.Edu!longj From: longj@handel.CS.ColoState.Edu (john liddell long) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Subject: Re: Why do people pirate software? Message-ID: <8404@ccncsu.ColoState.EDU> Date: 9 Aug 90 19:19:15 GMT References: <1462fullerr@yvax.byu.edu> <2847@bruce.cs.monash.OZ.AU> <6092@milton.u.washington.edu> Sender: news@ccncsu.ColoState.EDU Reply-To: longj@handel.UUCP (john liddell long) Organization: Colorado State University Lines: 17 In article <6092@milton.u.washington.edu> ashing@milton.u.washington.edu (Al Shing) writes: >to saying that you cannot loan books, or CD's to friends, and if you tape >stuff from the radio or TV, you have to send in money to the copyright owner. > >If this doesn't make sense for copyrighted books, music, and TV shows, it >also doesn't make sense for computer software, either. I tend to agree with the 'test-drive' philosophy. The problem with not having to pay for software you download is that you are getting a perfect copy, whereas taping music on the radio is hardly 'perfect'. That would be my reasoning, anyway. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dell Long longj@handel.cs.colostate.edu Colorado State University -------------------------------------------------------------------------------