Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uunet!ccicpg!conexch!amoeba2!rps2 From: rps2@amoeba2.UUCP (Rick Stevens) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: NoiseTracker V2.0 out! Message-ID: Date: 14 Aug 90 21:33:40 GMT References: <10129@bula.se> <10180@bula.se> Lines: 31 >In article <10180@bula.se> bjornk@bula.se (Bjorn Knutsson) writes: >In article hclausen@adspdk.CBMNET (Henrik Clausen) writes: >>>In article <10129@bula.se> bjornk@bula.se (Bjorn Knutsson) writes: >>>[Stuff about sending out 20 copies of NoiseTracker deleted] >> >>>Well, I can agree that you may not be sure that this is the case, but >>>you HAVE been told, and you have obviously not stopped distributing >>>copies yet. Now, that makes you a pirate in my book. >> >> Pirates are people that copy illegal programs systematically and in >>large quantities. First, just what the devil is an "illegal program"? >Well, I'd consider 20 copies a large quantity... Actually, doing even 1 copy of a copyrighted program is pirating. If the program is copyrighted, you make a copy, and sell it, you've infringed on the copyright and you are a pirate. I don't wanna start another flame fest or thread regarding what is and isn't pirating, but in my book if you have a copyrighted program and didn't get it from the publisher or a distribution channel (retailer, distributor, etc.) authorized by the publisher, then you own a pirated program. Period. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rick Stevens, Small Scale Systems of Southern California sysop@xyclone.uucp | rps2@amoeba2.uucp | CIS: 75006,1355 | BIX: smallscale "I'm tellin' ya, Valiant! Da whole ting stinks like yesterday's diapers!" - Baby Herman -------------------------------------------------------------------------------