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From: farrier@Apple.COM (Cary Farrier)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Re: Piracy
Message-ID: <31111@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 19 May 89 15:24:55 GMT
References: <8905182340.aa16502@SMOKE.BRL.MIL>
Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA
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In article <8905182340.aa16502@SMOKE.BRL.MIL> STEVENS@SENECA.BITNET writes:
>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)

	Theft is theft (parts is parts?).  Sometimes people tend to justify
	piracy by saying "Well, it's only thirty dollars anyways".  How
	would these people feel if somebody took thirty dollars from them?
	They would scream bloody murder and call the police.  The analogy
	of stealing a car vs. stealing software is just to illustrate this
	point.

>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!

	Wrong.  A pirate is a person who illegally copies software.  Period.
	
> 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.

	Why don't you ask the vendors and authors what their opinions are.
	I'm sure they won't have the same opinion as you.  I for one
	don't, and I work for both vendors and authors.


Cary Farrier