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- From: ppugliese@pimacc.pima.edu
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games
- Subject: Re: THE DAMAGE OF PIRACY
- Message-ID: <1993Jan10.095121.7181@pimacc.pima.edu>
- Date: 10 Jan 93 16:51:21 GMT
- References: <93008.123720ISSJXS@BYUVM.BITNET>
- Lines: 22
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- In article <93008.123720ISSJXS@BYUVM.BITNET>, ISSJXS@BYUVM.BITNET writes:
- > I have noticed that many people have gone down and dirty to
- > pirate copywrited software. The natural solution to the
- > suppliers of games and applications would be to pass the cost
- > of piracy to the consumer. Pirates, in their never ending
- > hunger for new and better software, feel that they are
- > justified in making thier own personal copy since the
- > software companies are charging outragious prices for their
- > products. Thus the cycle continues prices go up and up and
- > Pirates copy more and more.
- >
- > I have heard many pirates say that it is ok if they copy
- > software since it is software that they would not have
- > bought in the first place and therefore their copying has
- > no ill affects on the software manufacturers.
- >
-
- Well here we go again! It's time for another piracy flamewar.
-
- Look everyone, why don't we just pass on it this time? This
- gets beat to death every couple months or so & *NOTHING* is
- *ever* accomplished.
-