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- From: aeg03@rrz.uni-koeln.de (Jan T. Kim)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
- Subject: Piracy...? (was: ADVOCACY: Re: a blurb)
- Date: 21 Jan 1993 20:41:17 +0100
- Organization: Regional Computing Center, University of Cologne
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- References: <1itkq7INNb1l@life.ai.mit.edu> <1993Jan12.193457.27858@nosc.mil> <1ivsq4INNrjj@life.ai.mit.edu> <1993Jan13.211453.17837@nosc.mil> <H.ea.FH<92CZgQ@yonder.equinox.gen.nz>
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- Keywords: PC piracy
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- In <H.ea.FH<92CZgQ@yonder.equinox.gen.nz> craig@yonder.equinox.gen.nz (Craig Shore) writes:
-
- >There's tonns & tonns of ST stuff pirated. I've heard that there's people
- > around the world that have thousands of copies of pirated software.
- >There are groups in some places in europe where it's perfectly legal
- > to copy anything (no copyright laws covering software) that crack
- > the protection off each new piece of software when it comes out and
- > release the unprotected version with their groups name all over it. These
- > copies manage to make their way all around the world so many ST owners
- > must be sharing pirated stuff around!!
-
- I wonder where in Europe those places are... at least, I never
- heard of such places before. If they exist, don't they make an
- excellent test case for verifying all those predictions that are
- made by people arguing for or against copyrighted software? Tell
- me more!
-
- Greetinx, Jan
-
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