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Re: Quit Whining About Piracy

#93633
From: CD
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 1997 00:00
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Scout wrote:
> 
> Clas...@skuz.net wrote:
> 
> >The real piracy is the inability to return or exchange worthless
> >software.  If I had made the mistake of purchasing that worthless pile
> >of binary garbage CorelDRAW 6.0, I'd be sitting on a pile of $600 CDs
> >that were useless, because I couldn't return, and couldn't exchange.
> 
> There's a solution to that. It's called research.If your'e stupid
> enough to go out and plunk down $600.00 for a program without finding
> out if it's gonna work for you, then you deserve to lose your
> money....
> 
> I don't buy a game (or anything else)  unless one or more of three
> things have happened.
> 
> 1) I have seen the game and played it on someone elses system, and
> like it enough to buy it.
> 
> 2) The subject matter is something I really like.( like helicopter
> flight sims, ) Since the explosion of the Internet, and the wealth of
> information hence, there really is no excuse for not being informed on
> a product before you buy it.
> 
> 3) The product or game is from a company or product line that I trust
> implicitly.For instance, Janes. I would buy anything Janes puts out
> simply because I like thier depth....AH - 64 Longbow......ect..
> Or I would and will continue to buy anything in the Wing Commander
> Series.....
> 
> >As long as conditions like that exist, piracy can and will flourish.
> 
> As long as people think like you do, and have no respect for others,
> piracy will indeed persist. That doesn't make it right.
> 
> As I have said before, and I'll say it again, I know it goes on and
> that's what's so. What torques me off is when people try to justify
> it.
> There is no justification for theft. Stop trying to ease your
> conscience by rationalizing it away. It's wrong. Deal with it.
> 
> >For an industry that's making so much noise about piracy, the software
> >industry is its' own biggest enemy.
> 
> The opinion of a person who can't see the big picture to save his
> life.....I guess ignorance is bliss.....
> 
> >ClassAct
> 
> You can say that again......
Boring shit guys.What happened to Quake stuff?
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From: CD <"canuck"@(nospam)digicron.com>
Subject: Re: Quit Whining About Piracy
Date: 1997/07/15
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