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Hi...

Besides that, people who pirate would never buy the game at all if they 
did not have the option to pirate it.  If they had the money, they would 
go buy it -- pirating software is a HELL of a lot harder to do than to 
buy it legit.

Of course, I kinda like freeware... but games are almost never freeware 
and good. ;)

Alex

On Fri, 11 Jul 1997 Clas...@skuz.net wrote:

> On Fri, 11 Jul 1997 11:34:52 GMT, jo...@pball.com (John Hamilton)
> wrote:
> 
> >No amount of stupid, unsophisticated argument is going to make software
> >piracy an "ok" thing to do. What you are proving  by your clumsy attempt to
> >rationalize criminal behavior is that software piracy is to the computer
> >industry as shop lifting is to the retail merchandize showroom (stores) 
> >industry. It happens all the time, sometimes people get caught, but in general
> >its too large a problem to contain.
> >
> >All of which *does not* make it "alright". And you may rest assured anyone
> >prosecuted for it will find your arguments of little use.
> 
> 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.
> As long as conditions like that exist, piracy can and will flourish.
> For an industry that's making so much noise about piracy, the software
> industry is its' own biggest enemy.
> --
> ClassAct
> 
>