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From: rawdon@rex.cs.tulane.edu (Michael Rawdon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.games
Subject: Re: SimWorld
Keywords: spam spam spam $69 spam spam spam
Message-ID: <4549@rex.cs.tulane.edu>
Date: 15 Oct 90 17:56:07 GMT
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Organization: Computer Science Dept., Tulane Univ., New Orleans, LA
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In article <12740@crdgw1.crd.ge.com> darweesh@zephyrus.crd.ge.com (Michael Darweesh) writes:
>If no one pirated software, then the price would go down substantially.  One
>of the major reasons that there are so few Macintosh games (relatively 
>speaking), is that Macintosh programs are so easy to copy in most cases and
>therefore many people pirate their favorite games instead of buying them.

I'm sure this has been discussed to death on the net before, so I hope
I'm not starting a flamewar, but...

I suspect that if the comapnies brought their prices down to something
reasonable that people like college students could afford then there would
be less pirating.  Also if they offered incentives like little bonus things
for people who registered their software.

That's how I read it anyway.

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			     Michael Rawdon
		Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana
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