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Newsgroups: alt.games.doom
Path: oz.cdrom.com!agate!darkstar.UCSC.EDU!news.hal.COM!decwrl!netcomsv!netcom.com!rrward
From: rrward@netcom.com (Richard Ward)
Subject: Re: Getting Enchanted Axe: QUAKE Lvl 1 ? (was DOOM II)
Message-ID: <rrwardCvp3FF.7xA@netcom.com>
Organization: Yoyodyne Propulsion Systems
References: <347qao$hqg@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> <34apfa$a7c@elaine.teleport.com> <34dehf$h36@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: Tue, 6 Sep 1994 06:30:51 GMT
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In article <34dehf$h36@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> jr7877@eehpx12 (Jason V Robertson) writes:
>In article <34apfa$a7c@elaine.teleport.com> bmk@teleport.com writes:
>>In article <347qao$hqg@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>,
>>Jason V Robertson <jr7877@eehpx44> wrote:
>>>If you get ahold of, say, 3D studio and you _never_ would have imagined paying
>>>the $1500+ (I think?) that the program costs I don't think ANYBODY is hurt.
>>
>>I'd like to have a Ferrari, but I can't imagine paying a hundred grand
>>for one, so I don't think anyone's gonna be hurt if I go steal one.
>>
>
>Huh? A Ferrari is not "copyable". When one person has a Ferrari, it means
>another person necessarily does _not_ have a Ferrari. But software can be
>copied without another person losing his copy.
>
The flaw in this logic is that when someone makes a copy of software he/she is
_not_ paying the rightful owner for that copy and is thus depriving said
person(s) of income that is righfully theirs.
Richard