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Re: Different Idea... (WAS Re: Net piracy?)

Subject: Re: Different Idea... (WAS Re: Net piracy?)
From: jeffr@bmerha2a.bnr.ca (Jeffrey Robertson)
Date: 24 Jul 1994 18:50:22 GMT
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Organization: Bell-Northern Research
References: <307cd2$4vb@crl4.crl.com> <brian.chen-1807941716510001@bchen.berksys.com> <CtB5r5.KHI@maplesoft.on.ca> <30t27l$oan@lucy.infi.net>

In article <30t27l$oan@lucy.infi.net>,
Dennis McClain-Furmanski <dynasor@infi.net> wrote:
>: Is this morally justifiable?  Hey, I *NEED* the software, but cannot buy it!
>
>Justifiable is not the same as right. You just justified it. You didn't make
>it right.
>
>Someone would still own the copyright, even if it wasn't being published.
>They would have all the right in the world to thrash you soundly by law.

That is 100% correct.  However, what if they don't choose to thrash you?
Then it's not only justified, it's legal.
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Jeffrey Robertson                    |  jeffr@bnr.ca  |      BNR, Ottawa
"I speak for myself, not BNR" - Me   +----------------+       (Meriline)
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Follow-Ups:
- Re: Different Idea... (WAS Re: Net piracy?)
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References:
- Re: Net piracy?
  - From: dkl@crl.com (David K. Leikam)
- Re: Net piracy?
  - From: brian.chen@inetlink.berksys.com (BChen)
- Different Idea... (WAS Re: Net piracy?)
  - From: thaynes@maplesoft.on.ca (Tim Haynes)
- Re: Different Idea... (WAS Re: Net piracy?)
  - From: dynasor@infi.net (Dennis McClain-Furmanski)

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