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From: hsu@cvl.UUCP (Dave Hsu)
Newsgroups: net.micro.apple
Subject: Re: Re: Piracy???? (Flame response)
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Date: Fri, 29-Mar-85 11:16:49 EST
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> [aarrrggg] 
>> No, No. You fail to consider the possibility that DOCTOR VAX has stolen the
>> disks as well.  If he reserves the right to consider a program stealable if
>> it doesn't meet his arbitrary price/performance standard then we must assume
>> he reserves that right for hardware also. After all, a couple of dollars is
>> *way* to much to charge for a little bit of cardboard, plastic and iron
>> oxide, isn't it? :-)
> 
> You are quite right.  However, now that you make me think about it, we
> must also consider the possibility that he stole his *computer*.

Ok guys...this is heading off in a weird tangent.

I confess...I knew many pirates some years ago.  Many pirates.  Learned
which boards they hung out on.  How many disks they had.  How they got
their "wares".  How they congregated.

And names.  Many names.  1200 club.  Super Pirates of Minneapolis.  The
Underground.  Hi-res Hijackers.  etc.  

But not one of these people stole their micros, nor their disks.  Usually,
the micros were another "my dad bought it" item, and the disks were gifts 
from other grateful (read: lesser) pirates.  All the way from the guy with
4 disks, to the fellow with 1500 double-sideds.  Yes, there really were 1500.
And don't tell me that he used them all every day.  He couldn't BOOT them all
in a day.

In fact, they used to issue "statements of purpose", detailing their morals,
why they pirated and phreaked, and why they wouldn't support
piracy-for-profit.  These people were anarchists, not hardened criminals.

And they didn't steal their computers.

-dave