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- From: mycroft@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
- Subject: Re: protection == !piracy
- Date: 9 Jan 1993 15:47:07 GMT
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- In article <1iksk9INNlv9@skeena.ucs.ubc.ca> sainaney@unixg.ubc.ca
- (Narayan R. Sainaney) writes:
- >
- > There is no doubt that any software company SHOULD take action if a
- > pirate copy of its program is found.
-
- Even if you assume that, the company should not start with the basic
- assumption that the original purchaser did something wrong. He/she may
- have given or sold the package (as a whole, which is permitted by most
- `shrink-wrap' licenses) to someone else, or someone may have broken
- into the office last week.
-
- (Maybe it was a Christmas present? I have received software for
- Christmas before. The original purchaser is no more responsible for my
- actions with it than is James T. Kirk.)
-
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