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Newsgroups: alt.games.doom
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From: rrward@netcom.com (Richard Ward)
Subject: Re: DOOM II Thoughts
Message-ID: <rrwardCvoHDA.Ip@netcom.com>
Organization: Yoyodyne Propulsion Systems
References: <348erm$ch7@xmission.xmission.com> <348g10$35q@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> <34ak8p$bo3@server.st.usm.edu>
Date: Mon, 5 Sep 1994 22:34:21 GMT
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In article <34ak8p$bo3@server.st.usm.edu> pcsigler@whale.st.usm.edu (Peter C. Sigler) writes:
>Jason V Robertson (jr7877@eehpx12) wrote:
>: But you are _wrong_ in saying it doesn't hurt Software companies when people
>: pirate software. It doesn't hurt _BIG_ companies with _expensive_ programs.
>: That is true. I mean if you are using a $3000+ program that you would NEVER
>: have bought it doesn't hurt them. No big company or any person who really
>: profits from an expensive piece of software would pirate it.
>: But pirates _do_ hurt software companies who produce low cost software.
>: Games, Utilities, Word Processors, Operating Systems (sometimes.. I doubt
>: they could hurt IBM!). If ID sells 500,000 copies and there are 100,000
>: pirate copies that _does_ hurt them.
>: So pay the lousy $50-60 and let id make a bigger, better version.
>
>Hmmmm.... I don't think pirates have hurt id too much. I mean, DOOM is one
>of the best games out. People want it.
>
>Hmmm... well, come to think of it, if there were no pirates in the world
>instead of reading about how many Testarosas (blah sp?) each person from
>id owns and has endangered the lives of pedestrains with by wrecking them
>by driving wildly, we would be reading "John Romero buys Florida...AND
>CRASHES IT TO HELL THE VERY NEXT DAY!!!" Nah... I think they got plenty
>out of DOOM to have the kind of money flying around to put into uselessly
>expensive sportscars.
So you are saying that because the guys at ID have nice expensive cars that
they _desrve_ to get ripped off? What kind of bullshit is this? It does NOT
matter how much money a company makes, stealing their products is still wrong
(didn't I just go through with all this crap with AJ?). No amount of
justification and self delusion will change that. You cabn whine and bitch
all you want about the cars that the Id Guys have all you want but you will
still be wrong. Personally, I think they deserve every penny of every copy
out there. They worked hard on DOOm and DOOM ][ and they should reap the
rewards of their labors. Instead they have to put up with worthless parasites
who steal whatever the hell they please.
If _you_ produced a game so good that people where willing tbuy enough copies
for you to afford to buy France it would _still_ be wrong for people to make
pirate copies (of course, they'd be stealing from _you_ and thight might make
you change your liitle tune).
Richard