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From: alan@allegra.UUCP (Alan S. Driscoll)
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Subject: Re: Software Piracy
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Date: Sat, 31-Mar-84 22:35:31 EST
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Posted: Sat Mar 31 22:35:31 1984
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	... If a transmission is available for me to pick up, then
	I'll pick it up when ever I damn well please.  If HBO doesn't
	like it then they should encode their transmission in a manner
	that makes it somehow easier for me to rent the equipment from
	them, than it is for me to do it myself...

	... if there has been no effort made to protect the software,
	then making a copy is just like picking up a $20 bill off of
	the street; i.e. the former owner was careless with it, so
	tough...


Hmm...  I pay for HBO, and the last time I found a bill on the ground,
I found out who it belonged to and returned it.  Maybe Eric will think
I'm a bit strange, but that's ok, because I think he's a putz.


	... certain thoughts about this issue are a matter of their
	personal ethics...


Personal ethics?  What the hell does this guy know about personal ethics?

-- 
	Alan S. Driscoll
	AT&T Bell Laboratories