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Article #544644Re: Quit Whining About Piracy
From: CD
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 1997 00:00
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 $600.00 for a program without finding > out if it's gonna work for you, then you deserve to lose your > money.... > > I don't buy a game (or anything else) unless one or more of three > things have happened. > > 1) I have seen the game and played it on someone elses system, and > like it enough to buy it. > > 2) The subject matter is something I really like.( like helicopter > flight sims, ) Since the explosion of the Internet, and the wealth of > information hence, there really is no excuse for not being informed on > a product before you buy it. > > 3) The product or game is from a company or product line that I trust > implicitly.For instance, Janes. I would buy anything Janes puts out > simply because I like thier depth....AH - 64 Longbow......ect.. > Or I would and will continue to buy anything in the Wing Commander > Series..... > > >As long as conditions like that exist, piracy can and will flourish. > > As long as people think like you do, and have no respect for others, > piracy will indeed persist. That doesn't make it right. > > As I have said before, and I'll say it again, I know it goes on and > that's what's so. What torques me off is when people try to justify > it. > There is no justification for theft. Stop trying to ease your > conscience by rationalizing it away. It's wrong. Deal with it. > > >For an industry that's making so much noise about piracy, the software > >industry is its' own biggest enemy. > > The opinion of a person who can't see the big picture to save his > life.....I guess ignorance is bliss..... > > >ClassAct > > You can say that again...... Boring shit guys.What happened to Quake stuff?
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From: CD <"canuck"@(nospam)digicron.com> Subject: Re: Quit Whining About Piracy Date: 1997/07/15 Message-ID: <5qgt09$ok5@backup.mnsi.net> X-Deja-AN: 257076278 References: <01bc871b$622fd560$8c01d1cc@gold-1> <5pv1qa$eq6@camel1.mindspring.com> <5q0b06$3vp$1@neptune.uniserve.com> <5q12ps$opo@camel2.mindspring.com> <5q4vko$q7m@nntp4.u.washington.edu> <33c6174e.42689574@news.hiwaay.net> <33d941af.39527157@207.14.113.2> <5qgfd6$7cm$1@comet2.magicnet.net> Organization: LCD Newsgroups: alt.games,alt.games.apogee,alt.games.command.and.conquer,alt.games.dark-forces,alt.games.descent,alt.games.diablo,alt.games.doom,alt.games.duke3d,alt.games.mechwarrior2,alt.games.shadow-warrior MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit