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Path: oz.cdrom.com!agate!spool.mu.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!bill
From: bill@msi.com (Bill Poitras)
Newsgroups: alt.games.doom
Subject: Pirate Doom ][ is stealing (was Re: Getting Enchanted Axe:)(
Date: 4 Sep 1994 19:33:13 GMT
Organization: Molecular Simulations, Inc.
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References: <199409021358.JAA08116@post.QueensU.CA> <347qao$hqg@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> <34apfa$a7c@elaine.teleport.com> <34bsct$1fu@angmar.dataflux.bc.ca>
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Scowling Jim Cowling (scowling@angmar.dataflux.bc.ca) wrote:
: The difference is that if you steal a Ferrari, someone's lost a Ferrari.
: If you receive a copy of a piece of software that you would never have
: purchased, nobody has lost a copy.
I like a different way to look at it:
If you sneak into a movie you never intended to pay to see, then you are
receiving free entertainment. If you never intended to pay to see it
then it shouldn't have been worth sneaking into to see.
Also if someone can get something for free, you will never find out in the
future if they intended to pay for it.
There is always the possibility of a sale, if the service hasn't been
provided. That possibility goes way down, if someone has gotten that
service before for free.
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