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From: dprice@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Don Price)
Newsgroups: alt.games.doom
Subject: Re: People who are screwing us over - DOOM II
Date: Sun, 4 Sep 1994 03:27:54 UNDEFINED
Organization: Only a hallucination
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Message-ID: <dprice.145.007DECE6@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
References: <CvK9p5.5Bn@hub.cs.jmu.edu> <CvKFHG.8y1@freenet.carleton.ca> <modrid.22.2E693120@panix.com> <34bkop$ik6@xmission.xmission.com>
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In article <34bkop$ik6@xmission.xmission.com> insanitr@xmission.com (Insanitor) writes:
>From: insanitr@xmission.com (Insanitor)
>Subject: Re: People who are screwing us over - DOOM II
>Date: 3 Sep 1994 23:08:41 -0600
>Modrid (modrid@panix.com) wrote:
>: There are probably more people than you think NOT laughing right now. Yeah,
>: even if you are going to buy the game when it comes out, you are commiting a
>: crime RIGHT NOW by playing it. Its like stealing a book from a book store to
>: see if you want to buy another copy later.
>I'm laughing. Who cares if it's a crime? Id hasn't lost any money yet,
>when they release it, and some of these "pirates" havn't paid for their
>copy, then Id loses money. If you can honestly tell me you've never
>driven too fast, or crossed the street at the wrong place, or dropped a
>candy wrapper, or anything else, then I'll listen to your little
>accusations. But as it is, I may have broken the _LAW_, but no ones been
>hurt yet, so please pipe down, and go away.
>: What you are doing is taking advantage of a great company like ID. They don't
>: have to release shareware versions of their software, but they do. They don't
>: have to support it as well as they do. But you see them posting here, and
>: listening and talking to the public. And what you are doing is taking
>: advantage of their friendliness and stealing from them. How would you like it
>: if you had someone staying with you, and they stole your computer, 'just to
>: try it out for a while?'
>Computers are alot different. For one, I have no intention of sending
>Doom2 back to Id (they've already got it), I didn't borrow Doom2, I found
>it, and I intend to look at it, until I can pay for it. Thats like
>sending a copy of _The_Firm_ back to John Grisham, just because you're
>done looking at it. No, no, no. Wake up, moron, do you think that just
>because you haven't seen Doom2 yet, Id is saving money? No! Id's
>revenues aren't even being affected by Doom2 yet, Id isn't selling it
>yet, so stop bitching, and be quiet.
>--
>,-----------------------,-------------------------------------------------,
>| iNSANITOR [OgreHorn] | Don't drink and park, accidents cause people. |
>| insanitr@xmission.com | |
>`-----------------------'-------------------------------------[Anonymous]-'
Legally unsound. Federal crime. Max $250,000 fine. That's it.
Enforcement, however is another matter.