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- From: akiy@diva.cs.titech.ac.jp (Akiyama Jun)
- Subject: Re: Piracy
- In-Reply-To: c1a192@rick.cs.ubc.ca's message of 16 Nov 1992 14:57:58 -0800
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- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 04:12:43 GMT
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- In article <1e991mINNfre@bowen.rick.cs.ubc.ca> c1a192@rick.cs.ubc.ca (Oliver Erik Seiler) writes:
-
- > Actually this isn't true. Software piracy creates two copies of a a program
- > where only one existed before. Shoplifting doesn't create anything.
- >
- > Software piracy also doesn't affect shopowners in the same way as shoplifting
- > because the software is still on their shelves...
- >
- > - Oliver
-
- What drugs have you been taking?
-
- So, if I went and counterfeited $20 bills, I would actually be doing a
- justifiable deed because I am "creating"? Therefore, in the same vein
- as your "argument," if I were to start making and passing phony bills,
- it doesn't affect the economic base of society, since the original
- bills are in circulation?
-
- And, don't give me any of this crap about the physical item still
- being in existence, ready to be bought by other people. Would it be
- correct to assume that it is also not theft to type up an entire book
- (or use an OCR) and distribute it throughout the nets? Would it not
- still be theft if I were to hack into some banking network and add a
- few 0's to my bank account? Although in said cases, I would not be
- manipulating any "physical" items, I believe that they are both
- instances of theft, as are all forms of piracy.
-
- How would you feel that after working, say, ten weeks on a program for
- your CS class, if you found out that a fellow classmate went through
- the trash in your campus computer room, picked up your thrown-away
- code, and used it to make his own program? Granted, in most
- university settings, this would be caught (the professors and TA's
- used to be students themselves, you know), wouldn't you consider it a
- breach of moral codes? Wouldn't you feel cheated of your own efforts,
- your own intellectual skills?
-
- I really can not believe that anyone truly interested in Computer
- Science can think otherwise.
-
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- UCLA undergrad (studying abroad)[]
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