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Alexander Hvostov <shvo...@accesscom.com> wrote:


>GNU says, if you think software piracy is ethically equivalent to
>attacking a ship on the high seas, slaughtering its crew and plundering
>it, then go ahead and call it piracy. 

I do call it piracy. It is legally defined as Theft. 

> I think also, that if software
>theft is ethically equivalent to stealing a $40K car from someone's
>garage, then go ahead and call it theft.

I do. You, however, seem to have a problem calling a spade a spade.
You can rationalize this concept till you die. It will still be the
same thing, no matter what your opinion is, or how you rationalize it
away. Theft is defined by the LAW. YOU are bound by the LAW. If you
break the LAW, you can go to JAIL for commiting a CRIME. It's really
that simple. 

>One time, I got a warez game. 

Then you broke the law. Period. End of story. Deal with it. 

> If I couldn't get it via warez, I
>wouldn't have gotten it, period.

Then you don't need it. 

>  Money with computers seems to be
>generally spent on a few things:

<snipped more lame attempts at justification> 

Let me clarify something here. I'm not a lawyer or anything of that
sort, but I do work in the industry. And I'm not naive enough to say
that everyone who ever pirated Pac Man  needs to be sitting in a jail
cell. That's overkill, and not necessary.

What I am saying is that, very simply, it is wrong, and it is against
the law. Don't sit there and try to justify it by giving me the
grandiose story about Bill gates making too much money and not missing
it, ect,,,ect,,,yadda, yadda, yadda.Get off your soap box and get
real. Ninety Five percent of us have violated software licensing
agreements at one  time or another. Just don't bullshit me and try to
make me think your'e on a crusade against injustice or something. You
aren't, and it doesn't fool anyone.....

Call a bowling ball a bowling ball.