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- From: jniska@vipcon.UUCP (johnny niska)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
- Subject: Re: PIRACY AT ITS BEST
- Message-ID: <jniska.021y@vipcon.UUCP>
- Date: 9 Sep 92 15:28:57 GMT
- References: <Don_Varriel.00a5@amusers.UUCP> <46760@shamash.cdc.com>
- Organization: VIP - (Developer - ERN008)
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- X-NewsSoftware: GRn 1.16e (7/4/92) by Mike Schwartz & Michael B. Smith
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- In article <46760@shamash.cdc.com> app@shamash.cdc.com ( GSD Advanced Packing/Processes) writes:
- > In article <Don_Varriel.00a5@amusers.UUCP> Don_Varriel@amusers.UUCP (Don Varriel) writes:
- > >Um, I just wanted too ask anyone out there whether or not Piracy is a big
- > >problem where you live, whether in Israel or Pakistan. It doesnt matter. Im
- > >just curious as too whether or not this is so, because down here in good
- > >old B.C, it seems to be the case at hand. Some poor lad got it stuck too
- > >him, and stuck good. I on the other hand did not.
- > >
- > >An Interested member of the Men against piracy.
- >
- > I'd say that it WAS a problem here in MPLS, MN., USA when it was possible
- > to rent software. It was very easy to copy games, etc. Now that it is
- > illeagle to rent software, I think it is probably alot less common.
- >
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- > Mike Lundberg 7115 Alta Ave east
- > app@shamash.cdc.com Inver Grove Hieghts, MN 55077
- > home (612) 455-6538
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- Well, speaking for most of Europe I would say it *is* a problem. In some
- European countries (like Portugal, Turky a.s.o.) there is no copyrightlaws
- that protect the product - what is called 'a one disk country'.
-
- I know that the piracy problem in the USA is not really a big matter
- compared to Europe or Asia.
-
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