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From: aash@ms.uky.edu (aash)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: More on the ever popular subjet of Piracy...
Message-ID: <11788@s.ms.uky.edu>
Date: 29 May 89 01:01:11 GMT
References: <8905281624.AA01502@obsolete.UUCP>
Reply-To: aash@ms.uky.edu (aash)
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In article <8905281624.AA01502@obsolete.UUCP> delton@pro-carolina.UUCP writes:
>The argument's been made that people wouldn't pirate if software were
>reasonably priced.  The pirates I know, some of whom are friends and relatives
>of mine, would pirate if the software cost only a nickle.  The fact that they
>can have something for free, no matter how reasonably priced it could be
>bought for, and the fact that they are 99.9% sure they can't be caught and
>held accountable for what they generally know as wrong but rationalize away as
>many on this group have done is why they pirate.  i.e. why pay for what you
>can get free?  

With all this piracy discussion, I must admit that I do have
a few copies of things I didn't exactly buy.  But one question:
If I wouldn't have bought it anyway, who is losing?  I had
a copy of Karateka (or something) and thought it was some of
the worst garbage and it wasn't worth the disk it was taking
so I have it marked as a blank disk.  What if I had paid $40
for it?  I would be very upset.  I don't buy cars without checking
them out; I don't buy magazines without flipping through them.
So what is the loss?  I would buy the nice packages I have seen
like Copy II+ and other things, provided they remain reasonably priced,
and continued support of these programs make them worth the money.
If I had never seen a pirated copy of many things, I would never
have known they existed.  So is business lost or gained?  It is gained
if it was worth the money to begin with.  If it wasn't worth the 
money they won't have suckered the money out of me.  Is that what
this is about?  There are fortunes to be made off of suckers, but
I don't feel that software buying should be a blind process.

aash


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