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- From: torban@csuvax1.csu.murdoch.edu.au (Torban Bennett)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Let's move this thread to EFF's newsgroup already was RE: Piracy
- Message-ID: <torban.722058329@csuvax1>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 03:45:29 GMT
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- jamiller@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu writes:
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- >Software "piracy" is no more of a clearly defined crime than network
- >break-in's. There aren't easy explanations for the technology itself
- >(ever try explaining *what* software is to someone who is unfamiliar
- >with it?) and this further contributes to the difficulty of defining
-
- Yeah well I realise the Lawyers may not have got around to publishing
- volumous tomes on Theft of intellectual property, copyright laws and
- magnetic media, but it doesn't take a genius to work out that if you
- have a copy of a piece of commercial software, and you havn't baught
- the orignal, than somethings up. Know what I mean?
-
- >the "proper" use of them. Why don't we move this very complicated
- >topic to eff's newsgroup for anyone who is interested in what
- >philosophical arguments have been forwarded as well as any further
- >discussion.
-
- It doesn't seem that complicated to me, but then again, maybe I'm just
- plain nuts, 'cos it don't register as a philosophical argument in my mind.
-
- >--
- >jamiller@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu
- >James Miller
-
- Torban Bennett torban@murdoch.edu.au
- Murdoch University, For once, I don't think they'll mind what I just said ;-)
- Western Australia.
-