Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!mailrus!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!SENECA.BITNET!STEVENS From: STEVENS@SENECA.BITNET Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: re: Re: Piracy Message-ID: <8905182340.aa16502@SMOKE.BRL.MIL> Date: 19 May 89 03:42:00 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 51 From: info-apple@BRL.MIL To: MURRAY STEVENS CC: Subj: re: Re: Piracy >> 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. > -- >Thomas C. Murphy Worcester Polytechnic Institute CAD Lab >Internet: tmurphy@zaphod.wpi.edu tmurphy@wpi.wpi.edu >BITNET: TMURPHY@WPI BIX: tmurphy CompuServe: 73766,130 > -- Guns don't kill people, people kill people - with guns. -- HOLD IT HOLD IT This is getting a little rediculous!! I can HARDLY equate the 'STEALING OF A CAR' (Grand theft) with one person using a copied peice of software (Petty theft) EVERYBODY is using the term "piracy" when describing a single person who uses an illegal copy of software, when IN FACT a pirate is one who copies or Breaks copy protection and then SELLS that software to make a profit! Personally I doubt that software vendors or authors are going to charge a possible or real client (who is simply getting a later version) with theft for using a copy of there program even, though it is Illegel. BUT they will prosecute a PIRATE! who IS stealing Plenty from them! As Murph could probably tell you, Shrinkage is a thing that Suppliers or retailers HAVE to accept, (or at least live with). (it is GOING to happen!) BUT someone who CONTINUALLY STEALS from you, or STEALS A GOOD PERCENTAGE of your business from you, HAS to be prosicuted if possible (ie. A Pirate) 1 more thing! ( * Matt Deatherage! * ) I know you are probably a VERY decent person, BUT :-) (I'm SMILING Matt) I bet you do SOMETHING illegal in your car! whether it's not using your signals to change lanes, or doing 2 miles an hour over the speed limit when your late for work, or even Disobeying an Amber at a stop light! * COMON ADMIT IT! * :-) Murray Stevens@Seneca ONCE AGAIN, THANK YOU, in Advance, In Retrospect And Otherwise for LISTENING P.S. * How does one 'Snort' MS-DOS anyway? *