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- From: eeb@pro-freedom.cts.com (Ed Brown)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: PIRACY
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.225152.5022@pro-freedom.cts.com>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 05:51:52 GMT
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- > Theft, by definition, implies depriving a person of his physical property
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- Not necessarily. Any number of courts have rendered decisions that give
- intellectual "property" exactly the same status as physical property. If
- they didn't, we would not need to copyright books, films, magazines, etc.
- not to mention tossing out the entire area of patent law.
-
- You seem to be saying that taking a program and then doing absolutely
- nothing with it is harmless. That's probably true... as far as it goes.
- Needless to say, few people who pirate programs do so just so they can then
- toss them into a box, never to see the light of day. Much more often, the
- program gets used, shared with friends, traded for other "warez", or even
- sold... complete with photocopied docs. :-/
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