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- From: abs0@coos.dartmouth.edu (Kelvin Leung)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Piracy
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.041652.11820@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 04:16:52 GMT
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- 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...
-
- This has been discussed in great length in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games before. I
- used a rather poor analogy at that time... but I will state it again.
-
- Do you think one have the right to sneak into a theater to watch a movie?
- Sure, one is not stealing anything physical. Yet, one is benefiting from
- the item (in this case: the movie). One is lucky that there are actually
- enough people to pay for the movie.. if everyone tries to sneak into
- the theater, do you think Hollywood and Cinema would bother to make movies?
-
- I didn't really want to argue with IBM folks, as they were darn lucky that
- there are *tons* of people buying software... unlike the Amiga market...
- if one care about the Amiga market, one should not pirate software.
-
- Yours Sincerely,
- Kelvin
- e-mail: abs0@coos.dartmouth.edu
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