Re: Quit Whining About Piracy

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From: IJdo Dijkstra
Date: Sat, 19 Jul 1997 00:00

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rab...@mindspring.com (rabBit) wrote:

>But that comes back to the question, what makes you so special that
>you think you should be able to obtain privalages of use for free when
>other people have to pay?
>
>Yes, when you pirate software, I do lose money,

You do not. You can't lose what you don't have. Sorry.

>regardless if you were
>going to buy it or not, becuase you are using the privalages reserved
>for paying customers without due payment.

Not quite, as with pirated software you do not get manuals, tech
support, upgrade announcements/offers (as if I ever got those after
regging software...) etc etc.

    IJdo Dijkstra             
aur...@orion.xs4all.nl

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From: aurora@orion.xs4all.nl.REMOVE-THIS (IJdo Dijkstra)
Subject: Re: Quit Whining About Piracy
Date: 1997/07/19
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