Xref: utzoo comp.sys.amiga:26513 comp.misc:4380 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!super!udel!rochester!cornell!mailrus!uflorida!gatech!rayssd!rayssdb!jxc From: jxc@rayssdb.ray.com (Jeffrey J. Clesius) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.misc Subject: Re: Software Development And Piracy (Spurred By FTL replies) Summary: It's the Computer Brain-Police! Message-ID: <2219@rayssdb.ray.com> Date: 13 Dec 88 17:04:27 GMT References: <218@algedi.UUCP> Sender: root@rayssdb.ray.com (UNIX System Administrator @ Raytheon Company, Portsmouth RI) Reply-To: jxc@rayssdb.RAY.COM (Jeffrey J. Clesius) Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga Organization: Raytheon Company, Portsmouth RI Lines: 40 In article <218@algedi.UUCP> kenk@algedi.UUCP (Ken Koster N7IPB) writes: >In article >SCENE 1 >>10:1. A neighboor with an ST in my home town had EVERY single software >>title ever released. He called himself a collector; 90% of his stuff was >>pirated. > >Did you turn him in to the police? SCENE 1.A: A neighbor sees that you have a computer and reports you as having stolen software in your possession. The police break down your door and ask you to produce receipts for EVERY PIECE OF SOFTWARE YOU OWN! Can you do it? (Just because the disks have commercial labels does not mean the software isn't stolen!) Is this what you want? Freedoms have their costs. Some guilty must go free to avoid the innocent being punished. I agree that something should be done to hinder piracy; as a former game co-author, (anyone remember Commbat?) I truly understand the losses from piracy. But, respectfully, yours is not the desired solution. ------------ >Ken Koster or uunet!pilchuck!algedi!kenk >A lone Unix-pc Home: Amiga uunet!pilchuck!algedi!kkami!kenk >in the MSDOS swamp Packet Radio: N7IPB@N7IPB ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- __________ | / /_ | "For every action there is an equal / / / and opposite litigation procedure." / From the desk of: ---------------------------------------------------- /________ / / Jeffrey Jay Clesius, Raytheon Submarine Signal Division /_________/ | 1847 West Main Road, Mail Stop 188 | Portsmouth, RI (401) 847-8000 (X4015) -----------------+---------------------------------------------------------- { allegra | gatech | mirror | raybed2 } ----\ { linus | ihnp4 | uiucdcs } -------------->!rayssd!jxc jxc@rayssd.ray.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- === Standard disclaimers apply ===