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From: Amarth@csuchico.EDU (Amarth)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Software Development And Piracy (Spurred By FTL replies)
Summary: Get Real!
Message-ID: <1142@csuchico.EDU>
Date: 11 Dec 88 05:30:37 GMT
References: <1343@leah.Albany.Edu> <2783@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu>
Organization: California State University, Chico
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In article <2783@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu>, lee@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu (Greg Lee) writes:
> 
> You did steal my car, for all I know.  I can't tell for sure how many
> people have stolen my car, of course, but based on what I know of human
> nature, I estimate that at least one in four drivers of this make and
> model are driving *my* car.  And *none* of them has paid for it!  Talk
> about insanity ...
> 
> 		Greg, lee@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu

Come on, if you take that analogy far enough, you end up in trouble.
Try it with $1 bills, or $1000 bills. Get it? Counterfeitting reduces
the value of that which is copied, so the producer can no longer get
as much money for it as it SHOULD be worth, sans counterfeitting. Just
face the fact that piracy is dead wrong, and stop trying to rationalize
it.


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