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From: poirier@dg-rtp.dg.com (Charles Poirier)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: WP Manual Wanted
Summary: Manual copying is piracy.
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Date: 1 Mar 90 18:23:29 GMT
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In article <12214@baldrick.udel.EDU> AXTBF%ALASKA.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu (Tim Friest - programmer at large) writes:
>Before you condem a person for pirating, you should make sure they are guilty.
>Hear at the University of Alaska Anchorage, we have a volume purchase deal with
>WP Corp which lets us make X number of copies...  If the various departments
>want manuals, they have to get them on their own.

Did UA-Anchorage spring for a sufficient quantity of manuals, or does "on
their own" in practice mean a trip to the copy machine?  Not an accusation,
just curious.

>WP Corp does sell the manuals seperately, contact them.
>Of course, if you are pirating, you deserve all the condemnation you get...

I don't recall the original querant asking to *buy* a manual, just to be sent
one.  Form your own opinion as to what this means.  Copying the manual would
be as much a copyright violation as copying the program.  Such an act would
be particularly egregious, in my view, for the very reason that WP Corp
explicitly sells the manuals as a separate product.

Having thus burned my self-imposed annual allotment of one anti-piracy posting, 
I pledge to not follow up further.  Opinions herein are solely my own.

	Cheers,
	Charles Poirier