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From: umturne4@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Daryl Turner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Piracy
Message-ID: <1990Aug19.062519.13978@ccu.umanitoba.ca>
Date: 19 Aug 90 06:25:19 GMT
Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
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In article <rps2.1506@amoeba2.UUCP> rps2@amoeba2.UUCP (Rick Stevens) writes:
>
>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.

Are you saying that a person re-selling software bought is a pirate?
For example, I recently bought myself an Amiga 500.  Now, my collection
of software for my Commodore 128 is useless to me.  If I do as I plan,
and sell the computer with the software, you deem me a pirate, when all
I am trying to do is recoup some of the expense that I occurred in owning
my 128.

     Daryl Turner
          <umturne4@ccu.umanitoba.ca>