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From: caspian@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM (Caspian)
Newsgroups: alt.games.doom
Subject: Re: DOOM II Thoughts
Date: 3 Sep 1994 18:46:38 -0500
Organization: NeoSoft Internet Services +1 713 684 5969
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Message-ID: <34b1su$kc4@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM>
References: <348g10$35q@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> <19940902181554IZZY1MK@mvs.oac.ucla.edu> <CvK64M.DwL@metronet.com>
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In article <CvK64M.DwL@metronet.com>,
Scott Kephart <skephart@metronet.com> wrote:
>In article <19940902181554IZZY1MK@mvs.oac.ucla.edu>,
>A.P. <IZZY1MK@MVS.OAC.UCLA.EDU> wrote:
>>In article <348g10$35q@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>,
>>jr7877@eehpx12 (Jason V Robertson) writes:
>>
>Hey! I'm thinking about getting a new TV set too. I want something with
>at least a 27" picture tube. Can you please go out and steal a couple and
>tell us which one is better so that I know which one to steal? Hey, those
>big screens are heavy, and I wouldn't want to hurt the old back ripping
>off an inferior quality product. Thanks in advance! Don't you think this
>will help the manufacturers produce better merchandise? I know that if I
>built electronic equipment, I'd certainly consider which features of *my*
>products made them more attractive to looters! (I guess in this case,
>portability and ease of concealment would be important features!)
There's obviously a difference between your very distorted scenario and
the other scenario of pirating software. Most pirates don't walk into a
video game store and take the software off the shelves and walk off with
it. Instead, most pirates make a copy off of someone else's software.
I'm not saying this is right, but I'm saying it is different. If I go
and steal a TV, I'm taking something that otherwise would have been
sold. Not only did I get a TV for free, but I stopped someone else from
being able to purchase that TV. In other words, assuming I would have
bought the TV, and assuming the TV cost $1000, I cost the company $1000
from my pocket (the money I would have spent to purchase the TV) as well
as the $1000 someone else could have purchased that TV for, had it
remained on the shelves in the store. Now, with software piracy, if you
copy a game, you don't take away a legitimately boxed software that
someone could purchase, but instead, you make an illegitimate copy. In
other words, when stealing TV's, not only do you gain a TV, you provide
one less TV for the stores to sell. With piracy, there's still the same
# of software packages available for sell, but the pirate is able to get
software.
I'm not condoning piracy, I just don't think stealing TV's and stealing
software are the same, as stealing TV's cost the companies 2 times the
sell price, whereas stealing software only costs the companies 1 time the
sell price. So, in other words, there is a difference. A big difference..
-Caspian@Starbase.NeoSoft.Com-
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