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From: papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga User Demographics Are Changing...
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Date: 5 Jan 88 20:47:03 GMT
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In article <2400@ico.UUCP> farmer@ico.UUCP (David Farmer) writes:
>In article <4898@well.UUCP> ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab) writes:
>
>An intersesting discussion about increase of software piracy.
>
>>	The point is that, soon, I believe we will have just as much
>>software piracy problems as the C-64 community did.  Sigh.  And I wanted to
>>make my living writing Amiga games....

>I belive that the majority of people who pirate software, would not have 
>used, and paid money for the software if they could not have pirated it.

Sure, if you could download a Ferrari, or a Porche for FREE, do you
think you'll ever think about buying it?

>So the amount of money made by the developer is not changed.  I think it
>is even improved somewhat.  I do have some pirated software.  I never use
         ^^^^^^^^
>it myself, but do occasionaly demo it to people who are interested, and
>encourage them to buy it if they like it.

Who do you think you are kidding?  You (a pirate) encourage other to BUY
software you got for free?  

"Look I've got this really neat program I just downloaded from XXX BSS"

"Neat, can I have it?"

"NO, you have to BUY it. You know, I do this to HELP software publishers"

"Came on, here's a disk"

"OK"

>  If they were forced to buy it before seeing it, they never would.

This is also false. Most dealers will allow you to see a DEMO copy
of the software or even try the real thing, BEFORE buying.

Should I thank you for the nice job you've done pirating software and
thus helping out software companies? :-)

-- Marco