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From: mattd@Apple.COM (Matt Deatherage)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Rastan GS!
Message-ID: <44956@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 19 Sep 90 18:40:16 GMT
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In article <1990Sep16.182926.10944@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> jb10320@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Desdinova) writes:
>[...] Even though I can get both from the guy down
>the street who runs a pirate BBS.
>  But I have a question for ya all.  The pirate mentality is, I think, an
>adolescent mentality.  The young are easily motivated and impressionable.
>Therefore, shouldn't it be possible to do SOMETHING to change these kids'
>attitutes towards what most consider a crime?

Sure.  Take the phone number of the pirate BBS down the street and turn it
over to Taito, every other publisher whose works he has illegally for download
as well as the Software Publishing Association.

Unfortunately, nothing changes attitudes towards crime quite like punishment.

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