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- From: rock@lakes.trenton.sc.us (Rockerboy)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: PIRACY
- Message-ID: <0B7HuB3w165w@lakes.trenton.sc.us>
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 92 15:20:08 EST
- References: <1992Nov17.225152.5022@pro-freedom.cts.com>
- Reply-To: rock@lakes.trenton.sc.us (Rockerboy)
- Organization: Lakes Public Access
- Lines: 41
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- eeb@pro-freedom.cts.com (Ed Brown) writes:
-
- > Not necessarily. Any number of courts have rendered decisions that give
- > intellectual "property" exactly the same status as physical property. If
- > they didn't, we would not need to copyright books, films, magazines, etc.
- > not to mention tossing out the entire area of patent law.
- >
-
- Paten law has _nothing_ to do with copyright law, and as for court
- decisions, well, they seem to know very little about computers and the
- computer society. It is not reasonable to treat copyright infringement
- as theft. While there should be some way of protecting intellectual
- property (argh! I _hate_ that term...), treating it as theft is not the
- answer, as theft is different in that it deprives someone of his product
- in addition to any anticipated income. There needs to be some median
- between the extremes of destroying someones'a life and letting him go
- scott free.
-
- > You seem to be saying that taking a program and then doing absolutely
- > nothing with it is harmless. That's probably true... as far as it goes.
- > Needless to say, few people who pirate programs do so just so they can then
- > toss them into a box, never to see the light of day. Much more often, the
- > program gets used, shared with friends, traded for other "warez", or even
- > sold... complete with photocopied docs. :-/
-
- Hmm, I think you'd be surprised at just how many people are 'collectors',
- i.e. they just want the latest 'ware' to have it, and really don't look
- at it very often at all. It sits in a box gathering dust along with
- hundreds of other, equally useless disks. Even so, I did not say that
- piracy wasn't harmful, I merely stated that the terms used to define it
- need to be reconsidered. As usual, this brings the net.zealots out in
- droves to cram my mailbox full of hate mail. Sheesh, some of these guys
- are as rabid as the damned revisionists! ;)
- >
- >
- > * Edward E. Brown II * Internet: eeb@pro-freedom.cts.com *
- > * Chemist On A Mission From GOD! * FidoNet: 1:105/135 *
- > *--------------------------------------------------------------------*
- > Annoy the media...THINK for yourself!
- > ==============================================================
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