Re: Quit Whining About Piracy

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From: IJdo Dijkstra
Date: Sat, 19 Jul 1997 00:00

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Burghy <luib...@hkstar.com> wrote:

>> I don't see where get off calling a conversaition where you obviously
>> support software Piracy as in intellectual debate.
>> 
>> Even if you only use the Pirated copy as preview, it is still a
>> pirated copy, and therefore you are a pirate, which means you are at
>> the losing end of the law, and are therfore lawfully and correctly
>> classified as a thief, lawbreaker, criminal, and big bad man type
>> person.
>
>What if he was in... uh, I forgot the name, but something like eastern
>Slovakia, cracks etc. are not illegal there.

Cracks aren't illegal in the Netherlands either. If you legally own a
piece of software (ie bought it), you're free to do with it as you
please, crack/hack/patch, as long as you don't distribute it in it's
hacked/cracked/patched form. Using illegal software is, however,
illegal here.

    IJdo Dijkstra             
aur...@orion.xs4all.nl

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Subject: Re: Quit Whining About Piracy
Date: 1997/07/19
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