Re: Net piracy?

[daye@odo.CSOS.ORST.EDU (Critical Mass)]

In article <30h3ce$95u@wsu-cs.cs.wayne.edu>,
Bertha Ramirez <ber@siva.cs.wayne.edu> wrote:
>In article <30gu02$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!
>

Uh, actually, you can put the images back on disks.  It's trivial to do.
And I don't see how using them for 'testing purposes' justifies making
copywritten software available w/o a license on FTP.

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