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- From: marshall@tfh.enet.dec.com (Hunting the Snark)
- Subject: Re: Most Wanted Cracks List
- Message-ID: <1992Jul27.050843.25644@engage.pko.dec.com>
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- Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
- Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 05:47:37 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul23.230155.4015@edsi.plexus.COM>, jason@edsi.plexus.COM (Jason White) writes...
- >You mean if my stepdad gets Windows, and installs it on the three PCs in the
- >house, THAT'S illegal too? It sure shouldn't be...
-
- Yes of course, just take it to its logical extreme: suppose you had 10,000
- cpu's in your house, just look at all the bucks poor destitute Billy G. would be
- losing.
-
- [for the sarcasm detection impaired, yes that was sarcasm]
-
- Someone answered my 2 scenarios with the "take it the logical extreme" of
- instead of 4 friends sharing a game, get 4,000 to share it. Yeah right. Just
- about all ethical questions can be rendered meaningless by taking them to
- "logical extremes". A controversial modern philosopher called this "lifeboat
- ethics" and rejected it as irrelevant since we don't normally live in a
- lifeboat. The same is true with the practice of group purchases: 4000 is
- clearly an absurdity, I'd bet that these groups rarely get over 10.
-
- But regardless of the small size, I've accepted the argument that it is not
- quite ethical to make a group purchase, but still hesitate to call it outright
- piracy. I still firmly believe that were it not for the group, no individual in
- the group would have bought that particular piece of software himself and so
- there is no loss of revenue in such a purchase. "Piracy" I would rather
- reserve to practices that result in real losses, such as selling bootleg copies
- to the general public. Oy the definition is still vague, but who cares,
- everyone has their own definition and I doubt I'll be able to change anyone's
- so its time to sign off this thread.
-
- sm
-