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- From: jamiller@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Let's move this thread to EFF's newsgroup already was RE: Piracy
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.192150.44931@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 19:21:50 CST
- References: <1960@lysator.liu.se> <XcL9TB2w165w@lakes.trenton.sc.us> <torban.722058329@csuvax1>
- Organization: University of Kansas Academic Computing Services
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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
- [ya, ya, blahablah by me:)]
-
- > 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?
-
- Well, I don't think it's that cut and dried even from a
- common-sensical approach. There must be at some point be some account
- given to the Intentional context of the "pirate's" act. The fact of
- the matter is that both in legal contexts and more common sense
- situations we take account of why people do things. IOW, what are the
- cirsumstances behind what they did.
-
- [blah, blah, snotty totty, rigamoru...]
- >>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.
-
- For many people murder is also a cut and dried thing. War is wrong
- because it takes the life of another person. Capital punishment is
- wrong. Shotting your husband because he rapes and beats you is wrong.
-
- Clearly though, for others these circumstances are diffenet and would
- require the actors to be dealt with diffeently. This is reflected in
- the fact that we have different "kinds" of murder, theft, etc.
-
- The important point I would like to make is that we *must not* let
- companies that have inherently a vested interest differnt from the
- general public's decide these issues for us. If you are comfortable
- letting Mircosoft decide not only how much you should pay for a
- product but when, under what conditions, for what purposes, how often
- a day, then perhaps you should reconsider the dilemna.
-
- It is clearly not a "cut and dried" situation and involves more issues
- than Bill stole Bob's potatoe (spelling curtousy of EX-vice pres.
- Qualye!!).
-
- > Torban Bennett torban@murdoch.edu.au
- > Murdoch University, For once, I don't think they'll mind what I
- > just said ;-)
- > Western Australia.
- --
- jamiller@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu
- James Miller
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