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- From: eyvind@Lise.Unit.NO (Eyvind Bernhardsen)
- Subject: Re: I found a pirate - what shall I do?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov6.124807.23497@ugle.unit.no>
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- Organization: Norwegian Institute of Technology
- References: <Bx93tw.62C@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> <1992Nov5.201345.5803@bnr.ca> <Bx9n9K.943@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>
- Date: Fri, 6 Nov 92 12:48:07 GMT
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- In article <Bx9n9K.943@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>, shulick@yankton.ucs.indiana.edu (Sam Hulick) writes:
- > In article <1992Nov5.201345.5803@bnr.ca> hello@bnr.ca (Ken Orford) writes:
- > >This is one of the most asinine responses I've seen since M.B. posted
- > >last! Either you're incredibly stupid Sam or you're simply a jerk!
- > >Piracy is wrong no matter how you cut it - and if ya ain't one of the
- > >good guys then you must be a bad guy. Get a life and stop jerking
- > >around people who are on the right side of the fence.
- >
- > Oh, come on, now. What a weak argument, Ken, really. Either I'm stupid
- > or a jerk? No, try I'm realistic. And "piracy is wrong" is about as
- > weak and diluted as "say no to drugs." And no, I'm not a good guy, and
- > no, I'm not a bad guy. I try to be un-biased.
- >
- > Let's talk about realism. Do you realize how many pirates exist in the
- > world? Yes, QUITE a few. Astonishing amounts. Look, I hate to say it,
- > but turning one in won't do a lot of good. You could turn one in, but
- > maybe somewhere in the world, someone will say "I want a copy of that
- > game" and become a pirate. -1, +1. They sorta cancel out. Now maybe
- > the answer to anti-piracy is stricter punishment. Heavy copy protection
- > is out of the question, since the majority of the computer users despise
- > heavy copy protection. I don't have the answers. I just know that
- > turning in these people isn't going to solve anything. Thus my earlier
- > statement: It will only hurt the pirate, and it won't help anyone.
-
- Uhh... So you're saying that punishment is useless, because you're huring someone
- for no reason? How about crime in general - do you feel that thieves (in the more
- mainstream sense), murderers et al should not be imprisoned (or even killed in
- certain countries), simply because there are a lot of them, and the number is
- growing? I'd say that there are probably fewer pirates than there are pickpockets
- and burglars, for instance...
-
- Think about it, and you'll come to your senses :)
-
- -Eyvind
-
- > --
- > Sam Hulick | "You can't discover new oceans unless you have the
- > shulick@indiana.edu | courage to lose sight of the shore." --Anon.
- > (NeXTmail welcome) |
-
- --
- //| | DISCLAIMER: I don't HAVE opinions.
- // | | I just repeat what everyone else says!
- \\ //--|miga: There can be only one. |
- \X/ | eyvind@lise.unit.no | Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh! Ackpth!
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