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From: shill@post.its.mcw.edu (Susan J. Hill MD)
Newsgroups: alt.games.doom
Subject: Re: People who are screwing us over - DOOM II
Date: 6 Sep 1994 00:57:56 -0500
Organization: Medical College of Wisconsin; Milwaukee Wisconsin
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Tom HANKS (tom@munta.cs.mu.OZ.AU) wrote:
: paulhtc@netcom.com (Paul Hitchcock) writes:
: >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?
: 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?
No, but consider this:
If I sneak into a theatre once to see a movie that I intend to pay for and
see again, have I done wrong? Whether I'm just "previewing" it to see if
it's actually worth paying for, or if I'm short of cash this week but I'll
surely pay when I come back next week, I've still experienced that film for
free, and paying for it to experience it again won't change that.
Buying a ticket the next time I'm at the cinema and then NOT seeing the
picture comes a bit closer to a justifiable position, but how many of the
ridiculous pirates who claim to have ordered Doom ][ are going to shelve
their unopened boxes when they get them?
As an aside, the pirates seem to respond to the virus question by pointing
out how iD is unlikely to have planted one in their game. The point, I
think, is that they didn't get the game from iD, and who knows what havoc
"Razor" may have wrought upon the code. . .