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- From: neath@brazil.psych.purdue.edu (Ian Neath)
- Subject: Re: Why the Piracy? Here's why...
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- Organization: Purdue University
- Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 17:24:05 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan7.155907.19880@mail.cornell.edu> Tim Larkin
- (tsl1@cornell.edu) writes:
- > In article <MELLON.93Jan5123854@pepper.ncd.com> Ted Lemon,
- > mellon@ncd.com writes:
- >> This is a complicated issue, and not susceptible to simple answers
- >> like the one that you propose above.
- [some deletions]
- > It makes no difference whether piracy is most
- > like shoplifting or most like illegal parking or most like serial
- > killing.
- > It's wrong even if it's easy and low risk. If it's wrong, don't do it.
- > There's nothing complicated about it. It is fully susceptible to a simple
- > answer.
-
- A hypothetical question:
- Would you rather I pirate some software from you (or park in your parking
- space illegally) or would you rather I make you viction number 6 in a
- series of a dozen grizly murders?
- --
- Ian Neath | There are four kinds of people in this world:
- neath@psych.purdue.edu | cretins, fools, morons and lunatics - U. Eco
-