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- From: hellerS@moravian.edu (sjh)
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- Subject: Arrogance [ was: I found a pirate - what shall I do?]
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- Date: 7 Nov 92 20:54:51 GMT
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- In <1925@lysator.liu.se> marvil@lysator.liu.se (Martin Vilcans) writes:
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- >kolstad@cae.wisc.edu (Joel Kolstad) writes:
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- >>Most people I know who pirate software _have_ the money to pay for computer
- >>programs, it's just that they _choose_ to spend it on tangible goods. They
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- >It's not that strange really. Many people don't want to buy for example a game,
- >because the next day a friend has got hold of a cracked copy of it. Not fun
- >for the one who has payed $100 for it...
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- I recall a person I know who ran a pirate bbs telling me, actually boasting
- "The only piece of software I ever paid for was the BBS program! I have
- thousands of programs, and only paid for 1!". Needless to say, he is one
- of the biggest jerks I've ever known. I remember, back in the C=64 days, a
- teenager on a bbs getting my phone number and asking if I wanted to trade
- 'warze. I told him I really wasn't interested and he persisted, telling me
- "It's OK, cause I'm just a 'collector'.", as if "collecting" pirated
- software was OK as long as you don't do anything with it (like I'm going to
- believe that - NOT). I admit there is some pirate software in my
- "collection", but probably 98% of it never got used more than once and is
- in my pile of "disks to be recycled". When a program that I find really
- worthwhile comes my way, I have no qualms about buying the original, and
- do.
-