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- From: boblu@tekgen.bv.tek.com (Robert Luneski)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
- Subject: Re: Piracy of software
- Keywords: Theft
- Message-ID: <1685@tekgen.bv.tek.com>
- Date: 15 Dec 92 21:15:26 GMT
- References: <1g5lrqINNp3t@rs1.rrz.Uni-Koeln.DE> <1992Dec10.171254.23031@nosc.mil> <BzB7yM.9u0@ccu.umanitoba.ca>
- Organization: Tektronix, Inc.
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- In article <BzB7yM.9u0@ccu.umanitoba.ca> ens@ccu.umanitoba.ca writes:
- >Software piracy is decidedly a grey area. Tom is far too poor
-
- Bull. There is nothing "grey" about software piracy. Piracy is a euphamism
- for theft. If you use software that you have not legally obtained a license
- for use then you have stolen it. Period. Nothing grey about it!
-
- >I have seen this scenario play out many times. It's illegal, yes.
- >But as bad as stealing 6 TVs? Get serious.
-
- You tell that to my son when I can't buy him shoes because software sales are
- down and then I get calls for product support from three times the number of
- users than can be accounted for by legal sales. You would be surprised how
- many unique stories people come up with for why they don't know there
- registration number AND never sent in their card AND can't find their manual
- AND lost their orginal disk.
-
- It happens, it's real, it's illegal, and it is killing ST developers.
-
- >
- >Werner
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