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From: farren@well.sf.ca.us (Mike Farren)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.games
Subject: Re: Piracy and price (was: SimWorld)
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Date: 16 Oct 90 15:24:21 GMT
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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.

Perhaps part of the reason there's few Mac games, but a much more important
reason is that Mac games just don't sell well.  None of them.  Piracy is
no more rampant on the Mac than on any other system.
-- 
Mike Farren 				     farren@well.sf.ca.us