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From: Lear@RU-BLUE.ARPA (eliot lear)
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Subject: Re: Tires and Software and Right and Wrong
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Date: Mon, 5-Aug-85 10:54:24 EDT
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Allen Pratt Writes:
>							Piracy is not
>a valid (moral, ethical) alternative. To say that it is not illegal is
>to pick nits with lawyers. Regardless of how the legislature in your
>State or in Washington happens to define it, the Capitalist judgment
>of Right and Wrong must judge that practice Wrong, because you are
>denying the purveyor his due.
>
>
>					-- Allan Pratt

Sir,
	While I am not a pirate, it would seem to me that you missed
a point when you said that pirating is NOT practical.  The fact that
it is indeed a problem shows that it is a practical alternative for
MANY people.  Furthermore, our capitalistic society promotes pirating
due to the prices of most software.  Now I realize that this is a
vicious cycle (People pirate, software houses raise prices to cover
their losses due to pirating..) but the true Capitalist will always
take the best deal he can get - even if it means pirating as long as
he can get away with it.  In order to prevent pirating one would
have to take drastic actions at present because there simply aren't
good enough copy protection schemes around.
	I would like to mention that I do agree with you concerning
tires and Software.  The problem is indeed incurred by the low cost
of medium and the ability to reproduce software on said medium.


				eliot lear

[Lear@RU-BLUE]
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