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- From: noah@apple.com (Noah Price)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
- Subject: Re: Why the Piracy? Here's why...
- Message-ID: <noah-070193171329@noah.apple.com>
- Date: 8 Jan 93 01:15:48 GMT
- References: <C0Hv06.7rB@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>
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- In article <C0Hv06.7rB@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>, neath@brazil.psych.purdue.edu
- (Ian Neath) wrote:
- >
- > 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?
-
- I believe our (US-centric answer here) legal system recognizes that, like
- shoplifting, piracy is a less serious offense than murder.
-
- noah
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