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- From: tal691@huxley.anu.edu.au (Tonio Loewald)
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- Subject: Re: Why the Piracy? Here's why...
- Date: 12 Jan 93 09:46:53 GMT
- Organization: Australian National University
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- Software piracy may be wrong, but it's NECESSARY.
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- Software piracy is all that stands between us and even higher software
- prices. (The major exception to this is in highly competitive horizontal
- markets, such as word-processors, and even this is debateable.)
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- I cite the following evidence:
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- The price of SEGA Megadrive/Genesis games vs. Computer Games.
- The cost of Authorware Professional vs. Macromedia Director.
- The cost of AutoCAD vs. MiniCAD.
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- In each case, roughly comparable products that are difficult or impossible
- to pirate are much more expensive.
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- As for the moral absolutist who began this discussion -- anything that is
- even a little bit wrong you shouldn't do -- eating beef is wrong, it is
- environmentally unsound, involves the murder of an animal after first
- making it extremely terrified, but most of us indulge.
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- (I am no exception.)
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- Tonio
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- --
- Tonio Loewald | tal691@huxley.anu.edu.au | Life is short. Be nice.
- "You can lie/You can cry/For all the good it'll do you, you can
- die/But when it's done/And the police come/And they lay you down
- for dead/Just remember what I said" (Paul Simon-not the senator)
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