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From: hzink@pro-nucleus.cts.com (Harry Zink)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Pirating again....
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Date: 3 Jun 89 22:59:15 GMT
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Network Comment: to #1260 by pnet01!crash!ubvmsc.cc.buffalo.edu!V133JR65

Well, about a previous message that denounced the rumors of actual software
theft as untrue, I have to bring up a painful fact.  Some pirate groups do
engage in software theft to acquire the 'crackable' original.  As sad as it
is, it is nevertheless true.

On the other hand, none of the individuals I know has ever made any money form
it either.  

A case in point for the software theft would be each and every applefest.  The
first applefest was pretty nasty, as new releases were wiped left and right. 
Nowadyas it seems that vendor are smratening up, and running their demos from
hard drives or RAM.  Anyway, the two applefests I went to, software thefts
were rampant amongst some of the pirates and groups I met there.  I do not
condone such actions, and I will also not try to rationalize them.  You can't.
That is actual theft, pure and simple (very much like the Jewel thieves Dave
Lyons used analogically).

Anyway, this just to set some facts straight.

/s
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