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Path: oz.cdrom.com!barrnet.net!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!eehpx12!jr7877
From: jr7877@eehpx12 (Jason V Robertson)
Newsgroups: alt.games.doom
Subject: Re: Getting Enchanted Axe: QUAKE Lvl 1 ? (was DOOM II)
Date: 6 Sep 1994 07:37:12 GMT
Organization: UIUC Engineering Workstation Labs
Lines: 30
Message-ID: <34h678$bfp@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>
References: <34apfa$a7c@elaine.teleport.com> <34dehf$h36@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> <rrwardCvp3FF.7xA@netcom.com>
NNTP-Posting-Host: eehpx12.cen.uiuc.edu
In article <rrwardCvp3FF.7xA@netcom.com> rrward@netcom.com (Richard Ward) writes:
>In article <34dehf$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.
>
For Doom, yes. I wasn't talking about Doom. I was talking about a very
expensive program that the user would _never_ buy anyway. If this is the case
he gets to use the program for free but the company doesn't lose any money
(relatively). I the other (unquoted) part of the post I agreed that it
would cost ID money in potential.
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