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From: delton@pro-carolina.UUCP (Don Elton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Piracy
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Date: 22 May 89 11:21:36 GMT
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Network Comment: to #2893 by obsolete!pro-angmar!pro-lep!orcus


>... which shaft is worse, copying a program illegally, or paying $45 for $2
>of material?

First off you won't find any software products that only cost $2 to sell and
produce whether the media costs only $2 or not.  You don't think you buy a
book and only pay the price of the paper do you?

Nobody forces you to pay $45 for $2 software though even if it did exist.  The
publisher doesn't get a choice if you steal from them.  If you pay $45 you do
it because you want to.  Do pirates really feel they have a right to steal
that which they'd rather not pay for?  Are they this way only with computer
software or is this how they operate with other products too?  

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