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From: tmurphy@wpi.wpi.edu (Tom [Chris] Murphy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Piracy
Message-ID: <2326@wpi.wpi.edu>
Date: 18 May 89 20:35:20 GMT
References: <113300063@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu>
Reply-To: tmurphy@wpi.wpi.edu (Tom [Chris] Murphy)
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute CAD Lab
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In article <113300063@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu> krb20699@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
>
>     Accepting a pirated copy of some piece of software doesn't make you
>an indecent human being, it only reflects your opinion: whether the
>designer's deserve the cost of the software, whether your $49.95 really
>makes a difference to the sum, etc., etc..  I don't condone piracy, but
>I don't hate people who do.

By that 'reasoning', is it okay for me to steal a car, just because I
don't think the designers deserve the money, or that the $15,000 won't
matter to the sum of GM's sales?  Good greif, are people that immature?
Piracy is theift, pure and simple.  Easy to pull off, sure, but a crime
noneless.



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