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From: jr7877@eehpx12 (Jason V Robertson)
Newsgroups: alt.games.doom
Subject: Re: DOOM II Thoughts
Date: 3 Sep 1994 00:29:20 GMT
Organization: UIUC Engineering Workstation Labs
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Message-ID: <348g10$35q@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>
References: <CvIHsz.LBw@hub.cs.jmu.edu> <348erm$ch7@xmission.xmission.com>
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In article <348erm$ch7@xmission.xmission.com> insanitr@xmission.com (Insanitor) writes:
>but, unfortunatly, I can't. Even if I sent money to GTi, it's still
>illegal to play Doom2 until releasal.
>
>Consequently, Software companies don't lose that much money from
>pirates. And rasing the prices just forces pirates to steal the next
>game as well, because most pirates don't have any money (if they had the
>money, do you think they'd have to steal software?). Software is too
>expensive as it is, luckily Id hasn't stooped to the same levels as other
I don't bitch and moan about pirates too much (It doesn't help with development
and it is unfair to the programmers) because it really doesn't matter what I
do (and I have mysteriously found a few programs I didn't buy on my HD, which
I immediately deleted.. Ho hum, he he.).
But you are _wrong_ in saying it doesn't hurt Software companies when people
pirate software. It doesn't hurt _BIG_ companies with _expensive_ programs.
That is true. I mean if you are using a $3000+ program that you would NEVER
have bought it doesn't hurt them. No big company or any person who really
profits from an expensive piece of software would pirate it.
But pirates _do_ hurt software companies who produce low cost software.
Games, Utilities, Word Processors, Operating Systems (sometimes.. I doubt
they could hurt IBM!). If ID sells 500,000 copies and there are 100,000
pirate copies that _does_ hurt them.
So pay the lousy $50-60 and let id make a bigger, better version.
(My pitiful 2 cents worth)...
--
Email: jroberts@uiuc.edu
Ph or finger jroberts@ux4.cso.uiuc.edu for PGP public key.
(Like I actually need one).