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- From: jamiller@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: PIRACY v2.00 How about a mailing list?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.190747.44930@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 19:07:47 CST
- References: <BxM58K.Fu4@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <1992Nov13.134416.26118@hsr.no> <torban.722056020@csuvax1>
- Organization: University of Kansas Academic Computing Services
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- > OK, another one joins the debate...
-
- Let me at'em its my turn too...
-
- >>- Would the software companies earn more money if piracy wasn`t going on?
- >
- > Knock, knock? McFly? Anybody home? Look at Nintendo, Sega etc...
- > The amount of piracy on those machines would be fairly low, like about nil,
- > and I can tell you, they must be making HEAPS. Think about it, all those
- > machine sold, and each owner must buy originals. (or borrow from friend and
- > library. And I've heard of the cartridge copiers, but I hardly think its a
- > significant problem, yet)
-
- Knock, knock yourself. And keep your hands off my freshly greased
- hair!
-
- Back to the point though. I don't know about Australia or Norway but
- here in the US and in Japan rental stores carry many cartridges for
- sale. Admitedly this may not be equivelent to piracy on first glance
- but Record, Movie, and Software companies do find them equivelent in
- many cases.
-
- You may not be familiar but there have been many vigorous debates of
- late between Japanese lobbiest for their domestic rental stores and
- American film and record companies.
-
- There is a debate for the same reason that there is debate about
- "software rights infringement." Companies when denied of compensation
- they feel they are due, have a tendency to protest. :) Consumers also
- have a tendency to protest when undue restrictions are placed on
- property they purchase [I'm considering the case of piracy occuring
- between one who purchases a program and "pirates" it to a friend.] for
- personal use.
-
- To give a philosophical account of the merits and drawbacks of
- "software piracy" requires one not only to consider the producer
- [which this discussion has focused one in my estimation] but the
- consumer's reletive needs as well.
-
- Answer the question does the community benefit if there is or is not
- piracy requires a commitment to certain views on how ethics and
- morality are defined. If the issue is framed in terms more specific
- to the individual, ergo. is it fair to the programmer, for example,
- again you must answer other ethical issues before proceeding to the
- central issue of piracy, IMO.
-
- Has anyone else read the GNU guru, Steinman's (I've probably misspelled
- that), remarks on the issue of software copywrite? Jack Radigan and I
- had an interesting discussion several months on this subject, and it
- seems that there is enough interest to start a mailing list on the
- subject? Anyone interested in a more organized discussion?
-
- >>-Morten Leikvoll / leikvoll@hsr.no (Is it short enough?)
- >
- > Torban Bennett torban@murdoch.edu.au
- > Murdoch University,
- > Western Australia. Hopfully, they wont have had a problem with what I said ;-)
- --
- jamiller@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu
- James Miller
-
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