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From: agb@ucbvax.UUCP (Alexander G. Burchell)
Newsgroups: net.games.video,net.micro
Subject: Re: Microsoft Flight Simulation
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Date: Thu, 29-Mar-84 05:03:47 EST
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Posted: Thu Mar 29 05:03:47 1984
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> We CAN do sometihng about s/w piracy

	Who says we want to?  I for one got quickly fed up with
paying  FAR TOO MUCH of my hard-earned money (that is to say, 30
or 40 dollars) for a game that I would play often only once or twice
before becoming disgusted with it.  Thus, I turned to software piracy.
I do not enjoy paying for fancy packaging, nice artwork, advertising, etc.
I would rather pay for a game that I enjoy and will continue playing.
Such a game is Wizardry; I gladly payed $40 for it (Wizardry is an adventure/
strategy game for the Apple II computer).  However, a game like most mindless
arcade games that I have STOLEN (I don't want any senseless flames about
that either) is just not worth the $29.99 that is usually charged.  I don't
want to pay it, and I don't.  I pay the money only when I require the
peripheral things that come with it, i.e. complex instructions, etc.

	Please don't give me any whining flames about how I am taking
money out of poor programmers' pockets, etc. -- I used to be an Apple II
game writer, and I know just how much is made on each unit and how much
they cost to make.  There is JUST NO JUSTIFICATION for charging thirty
or forty dollars for a silly shoot-em-up video game.

	On another subject, you are being extremely narrow-minded in assuming
that the other people on the net want to support your facist ideas.  Would
you agree if I posted a letter advocating never giving money to bums on the
street and then signed it "Remember, if we don'et give them money, they will
all starve to death!"...  I personally think that concern for others is more
important than trying to "police" your neighbors, and I am sure that many
others agree.

						Alexander Burchell
						[agb@ucbarpa]
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