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From: lee@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu (Greg Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.misc
Subject: Re: Software Development And Piracy (Spurred By FTL replies)
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Date: 20 Dec 88 13:48:58 GMT
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From article <5531@cbmvax.UUCP>, by jesup@cbmvax.UUCP (Randell Jesup):
" ...
" 	Peter's point was that the current copyright laws we live under, and
" are supposed to abide by, are the _equivalent_ to a contract in a libertarian
" society, in which you agree not to redistribute the item in question.

I asked whether anybody was going swallow the view that software buyers
somehow enter into an implicit contract not to redistribute.  Apparently
the answer is yes.  No, wait.  They actually *do* sign a contract in a
parallel imaginary libertarian world.  And any obligations they
undertake in that world carry over to ours.  Am I getting it?  I must
admit, I didn't appreciate the true subtlety of the argument.

		Greg, lee@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu