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- From: marvil@lysator.liu.se (Martin Vilcans)
- Subject: Re: PIRACY
- Message-ID: <1960@lysator.liu.se>
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- Organization: Lysator Academic Computer Society, Linkoping University, Sweden
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- Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 14:55:38 GMT
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- saj31052@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Scotty A Johnson) writes:
-
- >Also, the pirate people do not, in general, respect any system
- >based upon capitalism, and will take it upon themselves to
- >determine that they either superior to the non-pirate people in
- >intellect, or the are inferior in funds.
-
- No, most pirates doesn't do it because of some ideological reason,
- but because of selfishness and stupidity. Some may perhaps call
- themselves anarchists, but if you'd ask them, I guess none of
- them could tell what that word really means.
-
- >For myself, I see most of the champions of the pirating and
- >non-pirating as self righteous pigs. What is legal does not
- >have anything to do with what is moral, and indeed is often
- >opposed to what is moral.
-
- Yes, what is legal doesn't have anything to do with what is moral,
- and vice versa, but don't say that most things that are legal
- are imoral. Brushing your teeth isn't illegal, and it isn't
- imoral. Software piracy is illegal, and it is immoral.
-
- >In the mean time, I hurt nobody, nor do I deprive anyone of
- >their possessions, nor do I act against any apparant societal
- >morality.
-
- OK, let's say you've built a wooden table and a few chairs,
- which you have in your garden. The next night, someone comes
- and steal the outdoor furniture. That's not a moral thing to do,
- right? It's about the same thing when stealing software, the
- programmer has put blood, sweat and tears into his work, and
- perhaps he wants to have something back for that? So, it IS
- immoral to steal his software.
- (It is hard to make an example, as other things than software
- usually can't be copied the way software can.)
-
- >I am your normal, average, every day pirate.
-
- Yes, you sure are.
-