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From: bilbo@pnet02.cts.com (Bill Daggett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Awkward Piracy Situation
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Date: 6 Mar 88 23:40:35 GMT
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Ah, I think your friend at best is a liar.  Ask him to prove he has a right to
any of the software he has brought over on his own disks.  I am not going to
prove any of this to you but after 8 years of computing and growing up with
the piracy issue not one of the kids claims is legal.  For instance, sight
licensing means a school or company can make duplications for their computers
ONLY.  It doesn't mean you can make copies on their machines to distribute all
over the neiborhood or take home to see if you like the program and go out and
buy it the next day.  I dare say that any software company employee who gives
out a software program to a friend to show off better have it in writing or
that employee might be out of a job.

I suggest you help teach this person Truth - show him how he may be hurting
the software market and what he is doing is not honest or Christian.  Finally,
I think there is so much good Public Domain stuff for the Amiga for someone
learning about computers to play with that the commercial stuff (unless we are
talking about some of the super games) is unecessary.
 
You have a hell of a task on your hands friend...

Bill

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