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- From: tal691@huxley.anu.edu.au (Tonio Loewald)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
- Subject: Re: Why the Piracy? Here's why...
- Date: 21 Jan 93 10:18:41 GMT
- Organization: Australian National University
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- jason@ab20.larc.nasa.gov (Jason Austin) writes:
-
- >-> A better example would be:
- >-> Software Piracy is like pirating CDs onto tape.
- >-> Software Piracy is like watching TV but ignoring the ads.
- >-> Software Piracy is like photocopying a book.
- >->
- >-> I'm not saying these things are right. I'm saying they are morally
- >-> comparable because they comprise benefiting from the sweat of someone's
- >-> brow while not paying them their dues.
- >->
- >-> Tonio
-
- > How about the people who don't get the profits from you buying
- >their software? How about the employee that gets dropped, doesn't get
- >hired, or doesn't get a raise because of the money the company lost
- >from the theft? If you're telling yourself you're not stealing from
- >another person, you're lying to yourself.
-
- Look, musicians get royalties on their CDs, but not on illegal recordings
- of their CDs. This is a very important (and simple) point which you seem
- not to get. The difference is that money (stolen from a bank) is a scarce
- resource. Ie. if I take yours, you can't spend it. Information is not
- a scarce resource. If I take yours, you can keep it.
-
- You want to categorise software piracy as THEFT=EVIL. I'm saying that
- is't more like illegal taping than theft. Now you can say ILLEGAL TAPING
- =EVIL, but the hundreds of millions of people who do it every day will
- be a lot less enthusiastic about giving the police the right to waylay
- you without a search warrant to enforce laws against it.
-
- Tonio
-
- --
- Tonio Loewald | tal691@huxley.anu.edu.au
-
- "Yes!! For the hundred and fiftieth time!
- We're burning in hell!!!" (John Callahan)
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