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From: caspian@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM (Caspian)
Newsgroups: alt.games.doom
Subject: Re: People who are screwing us over - DOOM II
Date: 5 Sep 1994 10:23:33 -0500
Organization: NeoSoft Internet Services +1 713 684 5969
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Message-ID: <34fd5l$p51@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM>
References: <8iOWBAW00iV9I3HF8G@andrew.cmu.edu> <paulhtcCvnCr4.Erv@netcom.com>
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In article <paulhtcCvnCr4.Erv@netcom.com>,
Paul Hitchcock <paulhtc@netcom.com> wrote:
>David Reeve Sward (sward+@CMU.EDU) wrote:
>: Excerpts from netnews.alt.games.doom: 4-Sep-94 Re: People who are
>: screwing.. by Paul Hitchcock@netcom.co
>
>: [yet another bad analogy to what's happening with DOOM II deleted]
>
>: > listen to the f*cking thing right now. Like, who's being hurt, I said, I
>: > mean the store will get the money EVENTUALLY, right?
>
>: WRONG. Better analogy: the CD player isn't even for sale yet, but you
>: already sent in the money for yours. It hasn't been delivered yet, but
>: you find an exact clone of one - in fact, the total number of CD players
>: in the world (of that type) has just increased by one. You use your
>: clone of the CD player until your own paid-for CD player arrives, then
>: you start using it and get rid of the clone.
>
>In the first place, it was a metaphor (or a parable,if you prefer) not an
>analogy. In the second place, your "correction" is so absurdly
>far-fetched as to be laughable: Software is not just the physical media
>upon which it resides! The authors of DOOM are selling a ticket to an
>experience, not just a packet of paper wrapped around a floppy disk! Or
>would you, after sneaking into a theater, complain you didn't do anything
>wrong because the management still had physical possession of the ticket
>you didn't buy?
No, I found his comparison much more realistic than yours. There's a
difference between stealing and copying. In your example, you compared
stealing to copying, whereas in his example, he compared copying to
copying. Making a clone of a CD player is the same as making a clone of
a software package. When you steal something, not only do you cost the
company the money you would have paid them if you had not been able to
steal the item, you also cost them the money they would have sold that
product for to someone else. In cloning, they still have the same number
of CD players available to the public to purchase. It may still not be
right, but it's more exact. You can't compare stealing to copying,
because they are two different things, one two times worse than the
other. They are still both illegal, but two different things..
-Caspian@Starbase.NeoSoft.Com-
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