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Newsgroups: alt.games.doom
Path: oz.cdrom.com!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!cs.utexas.edu!convex!news.duke.edu!concert!hearst.acc.Virginia.EDU!hub.cs.jmu.edu!newsusr
From: JDCAPRIO@vax1.acs.jmu.edu (JOHN D CAPRIOTTI)
Subject: Re: People who are screwing us over - DOOM II
In-Reply-To: pitts@mimosa.astro.indiana.edu's message of Mon, 5 Sep 1994 22:30:19 GMT
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Date: Tue, 6 Sep 1994 05:06:58 GMT
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In <CvoH6J.Apw@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> pitts@mimosa.astro.indiana.edu writes:
> Send me an up to date list. I see no reason for me to permit these people
Agreed, I don't think they should have access to much, either, but I'd be wary
of any action.
I had some interesting, intelligent conversation over my grouping all the
alleged pirates into one list - thanks, guys, who emailed me with clear and
level-headed thoughts.
Blacklisting is a dangerous thing to do - in short I did a stupid thing by
making the list, my point was more to show the volume of copies out there.
But to blacklist leads to violations of more rights further down the road. The
whole two wrong don't make a right deal. I apologize to everyone in
alt.games.doom for this. It's impossible to assume the circumstances behind
every person's post.
I still adamently stand against pirates, tho.
- DOOM II pirate posts seriously jepoardize id's good relationship with the
internet and this newsgroup.
- No matter how much DOOM I made, there is no justification for stealing
from id. Theft is theft, no matter how much or little money the victim has.
- If id wanted you to try DOOM II and then pay for it later, they would have
released it as shareware.
- There is no need to try the game before hand - it's almost the exact same
game as DOOM, and the 1.6 beta uses the same executable. Most of us have
played these.
For those of you who told me to pipe down, because I haven't lost any money.
Perhaps ... indirectly. But I wouldn't mind paying less for the copy I do buy
so I don't have to pay for yours. Supply and demand - ever heard of it? And
even though I may not have lost any cash, this sort of pirating nonsense will
only force id to become a less approachable, copy-coding, big-business
conglomerate. If this happens, I think we all lost something and I have a
right to be angry.
j
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JDCAPRIO@vax1.acs.jmu.edu | marijuana in my huddle!?
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All spelling and grammatical errors are because I go to JMU, where
education is subservient to process.