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- From: jahnke@biosci.arizona.edu (Jerome Jahnke)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
- Subject: Re: Why the Piracy? Here's why...
- Message-ID: <jahnke-250193154133@jahnke.biosci.arizona.edu>
- Date: 25 Jan 93 22:46:48 GMT
- References: <JASON.93Jan19162605@ab20.larc.nasa.gov> <tal691.727518516@huxley> <1993Jan20.141942.23817@gn.ecn.purdue.edu> <JASON.93Jan20140342@ab20.larc.nasa.gov> <tal691.727611868@huxley>
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- In article <tal691.727611868@huxley>, tal691@huxley.anu.edu.au (Tonio
- Loewald) wrote:
- >
- > jason@ab20.larc.nasa.gov (Jason Austin) writes:
- >
- > >In article <1993Jan20.141942.23817@gn.ecn.purdue.edu> jess@gn.ecn.purdue.edu (Jess M Holle) writes:
- > >-> The only differences between software piracy and theft in general is that
- > >->
- > >-> 1) There is no direct material cost to this sort of theft.
- >
- > > Wrong. It takes years, thousands of hours of work, and
- > >computer hardware to create and maintain an average software package.
- > >All that material cost is in every copy of that program.
- >
- > That material cost is indirect. Software is freely manufactured
- > once the mold is made, so to speak. Please debate the points I make,
- > not the points you believe I make or assume I make for your own
- > strange rhetorical purposes.
-
- You are using my work for free to make money. If you steal a word processor
- I developed, and used it for your resume typing business you have stolen my
- efforts and returned me nothing. You make money and I don't. The problem is
- that intellecutal property is less tangible than manufactured property. But
- if you use my work to make money I am entitled to make money from you.
-
- Consider this. How come law enforcement agents can stop someone from
- selling "fake" products (like Reebok Shoes, or Levis Jeans?) They aren't
- stealing anything from Reebok or Levis? So according to you we can all just
- buy third rate shoes and paste Reebok on them and sell them for 150 dollars
- (US) a piece.
-
- Finally you continue to say the poor have a right to steal. That it doesn't
- cost anyone anything. That does not matter. If I had something you needed
- and did not want to sell it to you even though I had no use for it, and if
- it were stolen would not miss it. Nor would I ever have any use for it, and
- it cost me nothing to manufacture (say a tree in my front yard). It would
- still be wrong, and illegal to steal it.
-
- Jer,
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- Jerome Jahnke
- Biology Learning Center
- University of Arizona
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