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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Path: sparky!uunet!starnine!mikeh
- From: mikeh@starnine.com (Mike Haas)
- Subject: Re: I found a pirate - what shall I do?
- Message-ID: <BxuDML.CA0@starnine.com>
- Sender: mikeh@starnine.com (Mike Haas)
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 03:56:44 GMT
- References: <Bx93tw.62C@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> <1992Nov5.201345.5803@bnr.ca> <Bx9n9K.943@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>
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- In article <Bx9n9K.943@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> shulick@yankton.ucs.indiana.edu (Sam Hulick) writes:
- >In article <1992Nov5.201345.5803@bnr.ca> hello@bnr.ca (Ken Orford) writes:
- >>This is one of the most asinine responses I've seen since M.B. posted
- >>last! Either you're incredibly stupid Sam or you're simply a jerk!
- >>Piracy is wrong no matter how you cut it - and if ya ain't one of the
- >>good guys then you must be a bad guy. Get a life and stop jerking
- >>around people who are on the right side of the fence.
- >
- >Oh, come on, now. What a weak argument, Ken, really. Either I'm stupid
- >or a jerk?
-
- Sounds like it.
-
- >No, try I'm realistic. And "piracy is wrong" is about as
- >weak and diluted as "say no to drugs."
-
- Both good ideas. Or do you do drugs too?
-
- >And no, I'm not a good guy, and
- >no, I'm not a bad guy. I try to be un-biased.
-
- If you condone software piracy... ypu're a bad guy!
-
- >
- >Let's talk about realism.
-
- OK, Theft is immoral. Copying commercial software is
- theft. Therefore, Copying commercial software is immoral.
-
- Any other spin you want to put on it is fantasy,
-
- >Do you realize how many pirates exist in the
- >world? Yes, QUITE a few. Astonishing amounts.
-
- That has nothing to do with theft being immoral. It's immoral
- if 1 or 100 do it. No difference.
-
- >Look, I hate to say it,
- >but turning one in won't do a lot of good.
-
- NOT turning him in won't do ANY good, in fact, it will do harm.
-
- >You could turn one in, but
- >maybe somewhere in the world, someone will say "I want a copy of that
- >game" and become a pirate. -1, +1. They sorta cancel out.
-
- Not likely. More likely it will set an example and dissuade
- others from being scum. Or maybe that one pirate is a mastermind
- of an entire ring... and you'll nab a huge number of scum...
-
- You see, your "maybe" is simply a rationalization... the kid
- of thing children do. Grow up.
-
- >Now maybe
- >the answer to anti-piracy is stricter punishment. Heavy copy protection
- >is out of the question, since the majority of the computer users despise
- >heavy copy protection. I don't have the answers. I just know that
- >turning in these people isn't going to solve anything.
-
- It sure will. Put these scum behind bars. Do it enough, and
- folks will actually start to believe they'll be punished, then the
- practice will begin to whither.
-
- Now, NOT turning them in... THAT won't solve anything (exacerbates
- the problem, actually).
-
-
- >Thus my earlier
- >statement: It will only hurt the pirate, and it won't help anyone.
-
- Good. See, even YOU agree... it WILL solve something!
-
- After all... who gives a rats ass about scum software crooks?
-
- By the way, Sam, on a personal note, I don't think you have the smarts
- OR the morals that God gave a rock. I have commercial software on the
- market... have had Amiga products released since 1986... and I will
- FULLY prosecute anyone who steals it.
-
- I would recommend that you re-evaluate your position on these matters
- before you make a total fool of you... well, before you do it AGAIN
- anyway.
-