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From: stanwyck@ihuxr.UUCP (Don Stanwyck)
Newsgroups: net.jokes.d
Subject: Re: Guide to males - copyright violations
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Date: Thu, 17-May-84 16:57:32 EDT
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Posted: Thu May 17 16:57:32 1984
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Scott, Scott.  Calm down.

First, there are probably many of us who agree with you.  Absolutely, even.
For many of us (or at least for me) we are unaware of the violation, having
never seen the article/book section previously.  Finding out that it was
a copyright violation bothers us a great deal, particularly since we realize
that the same person probably makes copies of his friends program disks, and
has never bought one for himself. (Make appropriate gender changes if needed.)

Second, finding out from you that it was wrong, we tend to do nothing more.
The options open to us are (as I see it):
	1. Call the publisher and turn the guilty party in,
	2. post a note of disgust to the net,
	3. Unsubscribe from the net (and take our machine with us)
	4. Send a note of disgust to the guilty party
	5. A combination of the above, or
	6. Do nothing.

Most of us, I suspect, did the latter.  It does not mean we were not bothered,
merely that we did not act.  (Consider this my #2 response).

Please, don't crawl into a hole - you did a good job.  This is your pat on
the back.
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