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Hi...

Just think of effortlessly cloning a BMW.  By doing that, you have 
basically software piracy. (except it's a lot harder to cover up =)

Now, if the original owner of said BMW still has it, than that owner is 
unhurt, pirate gains, and companies stay the same.  After all, the pirate 
would never have bought the BMW instead of cloning it, because cloning it 
is a lot harder to do than buy it. (it is with warez anyway...)

And quite frankly I think big companies like Microshit deserve it.  
Still, they are actually unaffected. (even with pirated copies of Windows 
95 -- it's with Linux is for, people...)

Alex

On Sat, 12 Jul 1997, cep wrote:

> On 12 Jul 1997 20:16:10 GMT, e...@u.washington.edu (E. Peterson) wrote:
> 
> >Nobody said they had a right to steal.  And I personally feel that copying
> >a piece of software is NOT the same thing as stealing a BMW.  For every
> >BMW, a person had to labor to create it.  That is not true to duplicating
> >disks and cds.
> 
> duh, thats why BMWs are $30,000 and software is $40. different level,
> same concept.
> 
> >Because if the kid had no intention of buying the game to begin with, the
> >company cannot say that were he to not have found a pirated copy, he would
> >have bought it.
> 
> so, if i would never BUY a BMW, then it makes no difference if i went
> out and stole one? time to rethink the logic, pal! maybe they didnt
> lose money in the sense of a sale, but they lost money in POTENTIAL
> sales. meanwhile, the thief gets to use the product exactly the same
> way as a person who PAID for it. is that fair? hell no. is that
> morally correct? hell no.
> 
> >Copying a game off your buddy and going into a store and stealing a game
> >is not the same thing.  Maybe morally, but realistically, no.
> 
> well! no shit genius. conceptually its the exact same thing and THAT
> is what we're talking about. what kind of moron thinks that going to
> the store, stuffing a box in your bag and leaving is the same thing as
> going to your friend's house and copying some disks? obviously there's
> a difference.
> 
> >Im quite a bit older than 13.  Its sounds to me like your common sense
> >needs a lot of work.
> 
> this coming from an advocate for piracy of intellectual property? it
> sounds to me that your income, ignorance, and selfishness needs a lot
> of work.
> 
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