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- From: jprad@faatcrl.faa.gov (Jack Radigan)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: PIRACY
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- Date: 22 Nov 92 07:44:06 GMT
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- saj31052@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Scotty A Johnson) writes:
-
- >You are ignoring the possibility of a legitimate copy finding its way
- >into the state. If crackers do indeed reside here, it is unlikely
- >that they would choose to work with a version of the program which
- >is already hacked up. It would be very easy to just go to a place
- >which DOES have a regularly distributed copy, and buy one.
-
- I'm not ignoring anything, because it's not a possibility. It can't be
- a legitimate copy if it is barred from export to that particular country.
- The two conditions are mutually exclusive, do you understand that?
-
- >No, Jack, I was refering to the names you called me, and others
- >who have differing views than you do. When most of us are trying
- >to have an interesting discussion (perhaps a debate), there are
- >people like you and Saul calling some of us "Twits" and "Assholes"
- >(respectively).
-
- Please, spare me the sensitivity, ok? When you walk into a newsgroup
- and proclaim yourself a software pirate (another term I find revolting),
- you've got to be prepared to get your butt scorched in the process.
-
- One other piece of advice, the only "Rules of Engagement" around here is
- shoot first, don't look back, and for God's Sake, don't take any of it too
- seriously.
-
- >Well I must admit that I have not looked at these studies, not do I
- >know what the Hell you are talking about, since punishment against
- >crimes is in general an excellent deterent; if not, then why have laws?
- >By your argument, crime rates would not change one way or the other.
-
- I'm not making the argument, I'm citing the example. I've got no reason to
- lie to you either, you can take the info and do what you want with it, it
- doesn't make a damned bit of difference to me either way.
-
- >Humans rationalize. It's one of the great and few things that seperates
- >us from the monkeys (no flames towards monkeys inteded). You see this
- >behavior as inexcusable, while I believe that others who do not pirate
- >software have learned something about those who do.
-
- There's a world of difference between the textbook definition of the process
- of rationalizing and the perjoritive form that people use to justify their
- behaviour such as yourself.
-
- -jack-
-