🚀 go-pugleaf

On 20 Jun 1997 17:03:23 GMT, shawnl@users.jaxnet.com (Shawn) wrote:

>Mr. Paul Katz (napkatz@erols.com) wrote:
>
>: I can understand the need to preview the full versions of software titles
>: before buying them.  But keeping them long term without paying is outright
>: robbery.  I've heard the "I would never buy it" excuse hundreds of times. 
>: As a software developer I find it very disturbing that people feel free to
>: copy my work and pirate it off of Warez.  If someone is willing to steal a
>: copy of MS Office off the Internet and use it indefinetily, I would
>: consider it something he/she definitely needs.
>
>Welcome to planet earth where piracy is part of living.
>
This isn't a direct reply but i had to put in my 2 bitz somewhere,
I won't get into my personal opinion on piracy but i have to ask some
of the anti-piracy ppl a few questions:
Do you have any jpgs or gifs downloaded from the net on your computer?
If so are they scanned images originally from a book or a magazine?
These are usually copyrighted and may not be copied.

Do you have any of those small insignificant shareware utilities
hiding on your computer that you just keep forgetting to
register?(have you paid for winzip yet?)

Can you say with a straight face that you have never "borrowed" a full
or ripped copy of a prog,played around with it for a while 'til you
got bored with it ,then deleted it?(you could say you were just
evaluating it,same as with the sw version)

Hypocrasy is just as bad as bragging about being a pirate.

No flame intended,just another opinion.

'Wulff