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In article <34319da4...@news.intergate.bc.ca>, ste...@cent.org 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.

Interesting theory. So I suppose you put 10,000 miles on a car before you
buy it, just to see if it will last? Or perhaps you eat your food before
paying for it, to see if it was good, and then puke it up and eat it again
after you have paid. And of course before you pay for that life insurance
policy, you're going to have to die a few times to make sure it will pay
off. I know a few software companies and programmers who would love to
help out on that last part...

michael

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--Steve Fuchs, programmer, Apple user since 1986

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         --Greg Bear, _Eternity_

Michael M. Eilers * Fearful Symmetry Designs