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Newsgroups: alt.games.doom
Path: oz.cdrom.com!agate!library.ucla.edu!csulb.edu!csus.edu!netcom.com!eadair
From: eadair@netcom.com (Eric Adair)
Subject: Re: DOOM ][ Piracy Overblown
Message-ID: <eadairCvoJqo.1uD@netcom.com>
Organization: The Campaign for Real Time
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL1]
References: <34fk6q$6al@dolphin.phoenix.net> <lagosCvoHqI.Iq6@netcom.com>
Date: Mon, 5 Sep 1994 23:25:36 GMT
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Ricardo Lagos (lagos@netcom.com) wrote:
: I agree wholeheartedly ... this whole pircary business has gotten boring..
: (i cant read more than two posts before i read about pirates.. and people
: whining ....)
: Please... move on to more interesting things.. (like DOOM!!!!) .. and stop
: trying to tell poeple what is right and what is wrong.. face it!!! people
: pirate..!!!!.. its kinda like speeding on the freeway.. people do it!!!!
: I dont understand the whole commotion!!!.. did people react this bad when
: the registered version of 1.0, or 1.1 (DOOM) was pirated???
All this commotion about piracy has gotten me to thinking about an
interesting double standard that I've come across. Pirating software is a
heinous act of immorality, while pirating tapes of music seems to be just
fine... I see people on the music groups trading bootleg recordings of
live performances all the time, or talking about giving taped copies of
CD's to friends, and I've never seen anybody even get slightly miffed
about it. I would even go so far as to wager that some of the
self-proclaimed net.cops on this group have at some time given or
received illegal copies of copyrighted music, thus making them just
exactly as immoral as those who they accuse.
I invite any of the anti-piracy zealots who have never copied or received a
copy of a musical recording, never recorded a copyrighted movie off of
television and maybe given a copy to a friend, who have never violated the
copyright agreement on any piece of intellectual work they have owned, to
stand up, and proclaim their overwhelming morality. I will recognize it,
gladly. No doubt there are some of you, but a good number of you are no
doubt engaging in the whole pot/kettle/black thing.
Eric Adair