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Re: Net piracy?
- Subject: Re: Net piracy?
- From: ber@siva.cs.wayne.edu (Bertha Ramirez)
- Date: 19 Jul 1994 17:43:42 GMT
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Organization: Wayne State University, Detroit, MI
- References: <30eanp$65q@bmerha64.bnr.ca> <30fidi$bvt@crl4.crl.com> <30gu02$a2a@netaxs.com>
In article <30gu02$a2a@netaxs.com> rak@netaxs.com (User Support) writes:
>You people are losing sight of the target. Cassandra archive included,
>among other things, Proterm. This is NOT a 'lost classic', nor is it
>'not available anywhere else', etc.
>
>If you need to be convinced that software piracy is theft despite the
>fact that the owner of the property "doesn't lose anything... he still
>has possession", I suggest you look up the laws regarding "theft of
>service" and see if that doesn't poke a few holes in your arguments.
Everyone keeps mentioning that ProTERM was on Casandra. WHO CARES. IT
COULD NOT BE USED BY THE EMULATOR, AND I DON'T THINK THAT THERE IS A WAY
TO PUT THOSE IMAGES BACK ONTO DISK.
Piracy is wrong, and most of those games on that site were pirate games,
but if you read the documentation, they were all there for testing
purposes!