Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!aplcen!haven!mimsy!mojo!russotto From: russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Re: Software "rentals" (was: piracy) Message-ID: <1990Sep18.194411.4851@eng.umd.edu> Date: 18 Sep 90 19:44:11 GMT References: <692@servio.UUCP> Sender: news@eng.umd.edu (The News System) Organization: College of Engineering, Maryversity of Uniland, College Park Lines: 13 In article kusumoto@chsun1.uchicago.edu (Bob Kusumoto) writes: >charging for it. I really don't think U6 is going to come out for the Apple >because of piracy and piracy will probably end up killing the Apple II >market altogether. I'm not going to stand on the soapbox and say that >people should stop pirating games because you know that someone out there >is going to do it anyway and just sap the market (well, not only that but >the fact that there aren't that many Apple II owners left to buy this stuff >compared to a platform like the PCs and the Amigas). If you think that piracy in the IBM world isn't rampant, you are way off base. -- Matthew T. Russotto russotto@eng.umd.edu russotto@wam.umd.edu .sig under construction, like the rest of this campus.