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From: blochowi@cat28.CS.WISC.EDU (Jason Blochowiak)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: BIG loophole allows piracy...
Summary: You must be joking!
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Date: 21 Apr 89 05:12:17 GMT
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In article <113300058@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu> trd10523@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
> [He states that he thinks the existing loophole should NOT be closed]
>
>(And yes, I know I'm going to get flak from those on the other side of the 
>fence - mainly, the members of the software industry. I know that authors
>should be paid for their work, and I wholeheartedly agree, but I don't think
>any one consumer should pay for a program more than once.)
>
	One consumer? You mean, if a university buys a program, only one
person will use said program? This is news to me... The way I'd like my
software to be treated (unless I specify otherwise) is like a book: One
person uses it at a time, and it may be lent to someone else, but that's it.
	Having more than one person use a program at once is what site
licenses are for. It seems that quite a few people don't realize that software
should be considered part of the cost of a computer! I don't know of very
many (marginally intelligent) people who would buy a car without figuring
gas costs into their finances...
	One thing (not directly related to what you said): Is it just me, or
is the "well, the recording industry has survived pirating, so the software
industry should be able to" a load of crap? I don't have figures in front of
me, but it would seem that the number of people with something to play music
on greatly outnumbers the number of people with computers (and if you have
a fairly normal form of the music [cassette, vinyl, CD], it'll work on any
player). And, of course, volume is necessary to absorb theft (without high
margin per legitimate copy sold, right Mr. Sewall?).
	I don't plan on getting rich programming, but I have a really nasty
habit called eating... (And I don't even eat that much!)
>Todd Davis
>Student, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
>trd10523@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu
>Disclaimer: They're my ideas, not UIUC's. We welcome replies to this editorial.


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		Jason Blochowiak (blochowi@garfield.cs.wisc.edu)
			"Not your average iconoclast..."
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