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From: [e-mail] (Richard Ward)
Subject: Re: complete DOOM
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
Organization: Yoyodyne Propulsion Systems
References: <33uaj7$[e-mail]> <[e-mail]>
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 1994 08:17:34 GMT
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In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Aj Peterson)  writes:
>-> Aj Peterson ([e-mail]) wrote:
>-> : Bull. It is only illegal if YOU PROFIT. Technically,
>-> : you can share. It's the same bullshit that went rampant when they :
[deletia]

>-> *Sigh*....someone else who has never read the Copyright Laws of the
>-> Berne Convention *OR* the licenseing agreements on software.
>
>*SIGH*....another mindless American who follows every law put out
>without question. If you were alive in Germanyin 1930, You would angrily
>dispute me for disagreeing with the law and turn in every Jew you knew.
>THAT was the law there.
How the hell did you come to _that_ conclusion?  Do you regularly insult
people who inform you that you are wrong?  Did he/she (you did not bother to
leave in the "so-and-so said:" line, so I have no idea who you are spewing at)
even mention Nazi's?  Did they proclaim the need to rely on "big brother" for
everything and follow his laws without question?  No.  He/she (I really
aplogize to whomever AJ quoated, I hate refering to people as he/she, but i
don't know who you are) merely pointed out that you were wrong.

> I know it's a poor comparison, but you people amaze me.
It has to be the poorest comparison I have ever seen in this newsgroup.  And
why do "you people" amaze you?  Because some people have a basic understanding
of the copyright laws?

> The same crap happened with music, and there were the same
>stupid arguments and the same stupid laws were passed that they can't
>POSSIBLY enforce and anybody who mentions how stupid it is gets flamed
>by dozens of well meaning zealots. Completly blind to the fact that you
>are helping to enforce a law that does nothing but make rich thieving
>pigs richer.
I seem to have found the theme of your argumets.  You hate rich people.  This
does not change the fact that you are wrong.

> ALSO completely blind to the fact that the little poeple
>that get CRUSHED in the prosses didn't make ANY money from what they
>were doing, never intended to, AND the big boys KNOW this. But they are
>insensitive bastards, they have to be to get the job. They do it because
>it cuts down on the so-called "initial" piracy. The guys who get into
>the BUISNESS if piracy who might NOT get into it because the propaganda
>scared him off.
I have no idea what the hell you are trying to say, but I'll take a stab at it.
Would you consider ID to be one of the "Big Boys" that are crushing the poor
little people under their hobb-nailed boots as they trundle off to the bank
with bags of loot, ro do you consider them to be the little guys?  ID is just
a few guys who knwow what the hell they are doing and have been lucky enough
to have created a product that people _want_ to play and(some of us) are
willing to pay money for.  Are they thieving robber-barons because they want
to protect their source of income from people who want it for nothing?

>
>They do it JUST to scare ya, not to accomplish anything. I'm outta time.

I ask you again to stay on tpoic.  You shout that it is perfectly legal to
copy anything you want as long as you make no money off of it.  Someone tells
you you are wrong and you resort to changing the subject and insulting them.
This tactic does not change the fact that you are wrong.  Why don't you just
face up to it and admit that you were wrong instead of yelling and screaming
and spouting socialist (or is it "cheap-bastard") dogma?

Richard