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From: kudla@pawl17.pawl.rpi.edu (Robert J. Kudla)
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Subject: Re: Software Development And Piracy (Spurred By FTL replies)
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Date: 20 Dec 88 22:13:42 GMT
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In article <81277@sun.uucp> cmcmanis@sun.UUCP (Chuck McManis) writes:
>Yes and no. The fine for pirating software should be the list price of
>that software. In a completely idealistic world, if you were accused of
But Chuck, most of the software I had as a scummy c64 pirate was released
in the U.S. either never or a year or two later. How would you deal with
software like this, with no list price?

Do you think, all subjective professions of objective morality aside, that
eradicating software piracy is possible without implementing some sort of
totalitarian government? In fact, do you think it could be reduced to a
level satisfactory to those spending hundreds and thousands of dollars
trying to prevent it?

I don't....

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