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- From: skip@tacky.cs.olemiss.edu (Skip Sauls)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: PIRACY
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.155829.9031@ra.msstate.edu>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 15:58:29 GMT
- Article-I.D.: ra.1992Nov16.155829.9031
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- In article <XcL9TB2w165w@lakes.trenton.sc.us> rock@lakes.trenton.sc.us (Rockerboy) writes:
- >marvil@lysator.liu.se (Martin Vilcans) writes:
- >
- >> OK, let's say you've built a wooden table and a few chairs,
- >> which you have in your garden. The next night, someone comes
- >> and steal the outdoor furniture. That's not a moral thing to do,
- >> right? It's about the same thing when stealing software, the
- >> programmer has put blood, sweat and tears into his work, and
- >> perhaps he wants to have something back for that? So, it IS
- >> immoral to steal his software.
- >> (It is hard to make an example, as other things than software
- >> usually can't be copied the way software can.)
- >
- >Duh! Gee, George, ain't that the whole reason there is an argument?
- >You equate piracy with theft, and then tell us you can't come up with an
- >example because it is so very different from theft!
- >
- >Piracy _is not_ theft. I will concede that piracy may be morally and
- >legally _wrong_, but it is _not_ theft. Theft, by definition, implies
- >depriving a person of his physical property, and anticipated profits _are
- >not physical property_. They cannot be quantified with any degree of
-
- Ever hear of something called intellectual property? No? That somehow
- doesn't surprise me. Are you a pirate? Is that the reason why you hide
- behind a silly nickname instead of using your real one?
-
- >certitude. The ONLY way I could ever buy this argument would be if the
- >program had to be re-written each time a copy was sold, in which case I
- >would have to agree it was quite similar. However, data can be
- >reproduced over and over at almost no additional cost, so the comparison
- >of real world, hand tooled goods is innacurate. People who are
-
- Sorry to burst your bubble, but lots of "real world, hand tooled goods"
- can also be reproduced at almost no additional cost. As for software being
- re-written for each copy, that would be like re-designing a car for every
- customer or re-writing a book for each reader. You really should get a clue.
-
- >victimized by pirates are not harmed as bad as people who are victimized
- >by thieves, because they have not actually lost any material goods.
-
- Hah, what an idiot you are! Your sort of logic is used by mass-murderers to
- justify their killing of innocent people. "Well, they never got to live the
- rest of their life, so they have not actually lost anything."
-
- >While they can certainly say they have been harmed by the piracy, it is
- >hardly the same as a tablemaker being robbed: in this case, he has to
- >make a new table, just as he would have been forced to do had he sold it.
-
- Does that make it any less wrong? Sheesh, where in the world do you come
- up with this crap? Your parents should be ashamed of themselves for raising
- someone such as yourself.
-
- Skip Sauls, Amiga Advocate and Pirate Basher
- skip@tacky.cs.olemiss.edu
-