Re: To Jeff Blakeney - please read!

["Anon" <anonymous@cotse.com>]

*>Hi!

Hey ya, Peter.

*>Anon wrote:
*>> In a word.... No.  It's sort of become a tradition, and I 
get
*>> all teary eyed over tradition.  ;)

*>It's a bad tradition surely.

Turley Thumping is bad?  Nonsense!

*>I myself was copying pirated software as a kid a lot
*>and i didn't realize that it was wrong a long time
*>until the room of a friend of mine was searched by
*>the police... he gave me a hint and i tried to hide
*>all my floppy disks immediately... but fortunately
*>the police never rang at my parents door.

I'll let you in on a dirty little secret.  I cracked most of 
the software that I _purchased_.  I liked having backups.  
What I _didn't_ do was distribute it to others.

*>My parents had really no idea what i and my friends
*>were doing... maybe that was the real problem.

So... shining a spotlight on your bad behavior might have 
stopped it?  That's what I am to do with Charles Turley and 
the Turlettes.

*>Today, parents have no excuse anymore. Pirating,
*>Phreaking, Cracking,... all this is around long
*>enough for every grown man/woman in the industrialized
*>world to know that this is illegal and to have an eye
*>on their children.

Indeed.  But it's currently a bunch of "grown men" involved 
in this nasty pirating.  

Due to the Chief Turlette's sexual orientation, humanity can 
count itself fortunate for this nice little shot of chlorine 
in our genetic pool, and the threat of little Turleys is 
somewhat reduced.

*>Quantum_Cat, would you allow your children to crack or
*>pirate current software? I don't think so.

No... But now I wonder if you realize which side I'm on..

*>I don't know if we kids did much damage in these golden
*>days long ago. And i'd doubt that copying some 20 years
*>old Apple ][ software would do any damage today. I feel
*>we should rescue the stuff for historic reasons. This is
*>the ONLY excuse the asimov (and other) sites really
*>have. Most of the stuff would be lost otherwise.

Sigh... It's NOT our choice, Peter.  It's the copyright 
owners choice.  If you want to archive stuff, buy it used, 
(hey, it's out there), and archive it.  Any other option is 
stealing.

WE don't get to decide the damage, Peter.  

*>I hope that if people that still have copyrights on this
*>software arise, we (the "Apple ][ forever" community) can
*>convince them to give the stuff into the public domain.
*>That's it. If we can't, we should remove the stuff.

OK.  That's cool.  If they don't want to market it, perhaps 
they can be convinced to place it for sale on CDROM as disk 
images as some kind of a "Classic Game Collections" for use 
with emulators, or to make disks from.  That would be _their_ 
decision.

*>In 30 years, maybe some people will remember Bill Budge
*>and show their grandchildren RasterBlaster. The people
*>that don't want to be rememebered shouldn't.

Sure.

*>Tschuess (with a tear in my left eye)

*>Peter

Lebe wohl

Quantum_Cat

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