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Newsgroups: alt.games.doom
Path: oz.cdrom.com!agate!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!munnari.oz.au!cs.mu.OZ.AU!munta.cs.mu.OZ.AU!tom
From: tom@munta.cs.mu.OZ.AU (Tom HANKS)
Subject: Re: People who are screwing us over - DOOM II
Message-ID: <9424911.9060@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU>
Sender: news@cs.mu.OZ.AU
Organization: Computer Science, University of Melbourne, Australia
References: <8iOWBAW00iV9I3HF8G@andrew.cmu.edu> <paulhtcCvnCr4.Erv@netcom.com>
Date: Tue, 6 Sep 1994 01:56:16 GMT
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paulhtc@netcom.com (Paul Hitchcock) writes:
>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?
>The comparison is completely appropriate-- an example of making use of
>the creative labors of others while making a weak promise to pay later.
I assumed that David was talking about those who have paid for DOOM II
with pre-orders. Regardless, it is obvious that he is talking about those
pirates who _will_ pay. Perhaps most will not pay, and they are scum, but
consider those who do.
In that case your cinema analogy is closer to purchasing your ticket and then
either (pick whichever you think closer models the DOOM II situation)
a. Refusing to take your ticket from the ticket booth and then sneaking in.
b. Ripping up your ticket into little pieces and then sneaking in.
c. Hanging onto your ticket and sneaking in.
Are these illegal? I don't know ... probably, but who cares. In _my_
code of morality they may be illegal but definitely not unethical. You
have paid for entrance to the cinema to see a film, should it really
matter how you actually got in?
Same with DOOM II. Assuming that the money is paid then Id gets their
bucks and you get yor game. Just how valid a defense this is for the
majority of DOOM II pirates I don't know. Why buy the game when you
already have it? Just a question of personal honor and values I guess.
Hey, why not send the $50 to your favourite charity instead :)
Actually there is another way in which these pirates could hurt DOOM II and
that is by diminishing the hype and "zing factor" associated with its
release. I'd guess that marketing software like DOOM II has a lot to do
with timing and momentum. Those of us without DOOM II could all be bored
stiff of it before we get a chance to buy it.
Oh well, just my thoughts.
TTFN Tom.