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- From: skip@tacky.cs.olemiss.edu (Skip Sauls)
- Subject: Re: Piracy
- Message-ID: <1992Nov21.195700.16182@ra.msstate.edu>
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- Organization: University of Mississippi, Dept. of Computer Science
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- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 19:57:00 GMT
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- In article <8686@orbit.cts.com> chucks@pnet51.orb.mn.org (Erik Funkenbusch) writes:
- >SS
- >Skip, take a chill pill.
-
- If you don't want to read it, learn how to use a killfile.
-
- >No one is justifying piracy. Most people agree that it is wrong. What people
- >are pointing out, is that piracy is not theft. i
-
- There are people who are trying to justify piracy and they have been using the
- argument that piracy is not theft to do so. If they want to call it something
- else, fine, but just changing the name does nothing to justify their actions.
-
- >it is copyright infringement. it is still wrong, it is still ILLEGAL, and it
- >still hurts people. However, calling piracy theft, is like puting a gun in
- >your face, demanding money and calling it shoplifting. see the picture?
-
- No, I'm afraid that I don't see the picture. The definition of theft varies,
- but most would probably agree that it is the act of stealing something which
- belongs to someone else. A pirate steals the ideas and hard work that have
- been used in the creation of a program. Whether or not you call it piracy,
- theft, or whatever does not matter to me, but I will not simply "chill out"
- and accept the lame attempts at justifying a crime.
-
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- >| ARPA: crash!orbit!pnet51!chucks@nosc.mil | system you let me |
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- Skip Sauls, Amiga Advocate
- skip@tacky.cs.olemiss.edu
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