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Article #76461Re: Get free full versions of PC games!!!
From: ble...
Date: Tue, 30 Sep 1997 00:00
Date: Tue, 30 Sep 1997 00:00
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Stefan wrote: > >>Actually they are anything but free. By STEALING these games you > drive the > >>prices up in the long run for those of us who PAY for our games. If > you > >>must STEAL please do so in a place where PROSECUTION is possible. > Maybe if > > > >Not that I endorse Piracy or anything, but why do you say it's > >'anything but free'? > > > >The people that Pirate software will most likely continue pirating > >software. Price doesn't effect them. > > I'm a huge advocate for pirating software. I am one of the > (supposedly) many who try before we buy. I've gone through games like > MDK and Redneck Rampage, and personally, they stink. Sure, there were > a few new ideas, but they had no replay value. Quake, on the other > hand, is a great game, and that's why I bought it last week. > There used to be some kind of telnet BBS that had a try-before-you-buy > > concept and you had 24 hours to try the full game before you deleted > it. If that were extended to two or three days, I think it's a great > idea. > > Pirating doesn't mean you're cheap (Usually, I don't support the > idiots who just suck up everything they can because they 'can'), it > means you want to know what you're buying. Gee, seems to me there are things called DEMOS that do the same thing and aren't ILLEGAL! James LeMosy
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From: "ble...@netins.net" <ble...@netins.net> Subject: Re: Get free full versions of PC games!!! Date: 1997/09/30 Message-ID: <3431B30C.D56847BA@netins.net> X-Deja-AN: 276913303 References: <01bcca07$7c0c6460$e51b7e82@dialup.cso.uiuc.edu> <01bcca07$c0d1fba0$1ef445cf@nealw> <34448505.5299535@news.erols.com> <34319da4.8311856@news.intergate.bc.ca> X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Organization: netINS, Inc. Reply-To: ble...@netins.net Newsgroups: alt.games.command-n-conq,alt.games.descent,alt.games.marathon,alt.games.mk,alt.games.quake,alt.games.sf2,alt.games.video.classic,aus.games,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.adventure,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.flight-sim,comp.sys.ib MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit