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Path: oz.cdrom.com!agate!cat.cis.Brown.EDU!news2.near.net!das-news.harvard.edu!casaba.srv.cs.cmu.edu!bb3.andrew.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!rv29+
From: Robert S Verenna <rv29+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Newsgroups: alt.games.doom
Subject: Re: People who are screwing us over - DOOM II
Date: Sat, 3 Sep 1994 15:13:07 -0400
Organization: Freshman, H&SS Undeclared, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
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Message-ID: <MiOAf3_00iV0Q2xuUB@andrew.cmu.edu>
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In-Reply-To: <CvK9p5.5Bn@hub.cs.jmu.edu>
I'm writing in defense of sward+@andrew.cmu.edu. I also attend CMU and
frequent the PC cluster. DOOM ][ is without a doubt on every machine in
the lab. It won't be removed, simply because it is replaced as soon as
it is removed. I don't know who got the initial version, but everyone
has played it. People who know nothing about computers or ftping are
playing it. They only know DOOM is cool, so DOOM ][ is cooler. They
are not responsible, but they are playing the game. Does this make them
pirates? They don't know the game is a commercial product, and no one
knows where it came from. But the fact is, they're playing it. You
can't walk into the lab without it being on a few screens. Obviously,
CMU admins don't know about it yet. I'm sure they'll deal with it when
they do. Until then, the game will continually be on the machines.
Therefore, it is unfair to blacklist (essentially what you're proposing
to do) one person who has innocently played a really cool game that he
found on public computers. So I hope you'll all reconsider killing all
his posts. The others, I can't vouch for, but I know many WILL buy the
game when it comes out (they have said as much). If you want to
blacklist me too, fine, I really don't care. It seems a mite bit
immature for a conference like this, but then again, it seems as if
you're just jealous that you CAN'T get a copy, legal or not.