Re: A2 Trade/Swap???? site discovered ... another Vogon success story

[tarage <tarage@bellsouth.net>]

bobryan9@my-deja.com wrote:

> In article <395E0B1D.E7190E21@swbell.net>,
>   rubywand@swbell.net wrote:
> >
> >      Wonder why the vogies are so quiet? Like, supposedly, they
> finally have
> > a for-real pirate site, and, yet, not a peep.
>
> I've wondered why the crusaders haven't been filling the newsgroup with
> more crap about this also.  Except in this case it wouldn't be crap
> (except for the fact that everyone is tired of hearing it..) because
> still produced and supported software is supposedly offered by the
> person running the site.
>
> >
> >      For years, those who attack sites like Asimov and Tarnover have
> been
> > warned, repeatedly, of the consequences likely to follow removal of
> well
> > behaved 'safety valve' sites. They would not listen and persisted in
> their
> > bogus charges of "software piracy". Now, unless S&S is some kind of
> hoax, it
> > looks like the vogon screwups have managed to produce 'the real
> thing'.

That's right. And I don't think those kind of people will ever
listen...because fundamentally, they are right. The bottom line is that
much of the software used there is used without permission of the original
authors, when all that's required is simply asking them, "Hey, is it ok if
we redistribute?" But you guys wouldn't even do that. Whose fault is it, in
the end? In the end, if those sites get shut down for carrying commercial
software that's still under copyright protection and the original authors
haven't given permission, then the people that posted it...that's whose
fault it is. You're shooting the messenger for sounding the alarm.

And if this guy offers Spectrum, then he will either be forced to stop
doing that, or his whole site will be shut down. His choice...

>
> That is a very interesting theory, and it does have some evidence to
> back it up.  Wheres the evidence?  Look inside yourself.  It's called
> human nature.

Not in everyone's nature, apparently. STEALING IS GOOD hurts someone sooner
or later, and it hurts us all in quiet ways.

---Tarage