Re: Copyright request?!? Difference Moral/Legal ?

[chucknewby@aol.com (ChuckNewby)]

Somewhere in this thread I read the old bull s**t about pirating commercial
software being a good thing for the developer.  The idea is that if the
software is really good the pirate will purchase a legal copy to make sure he
has the whole program and documentation.

That is so much BS it stinks even on my monitor....

Pirate boards over the last 3-5 years all but killed sales of ProSel-16.  Yet
when the program was turned over to the Public Domain, several who follow this
news group attacked it like sharks in a feeding frenzie.  Since its release I
have sold more ProSel-16 manuals than all the copies of ProSel-16 I sold last
year. Both of these events prove the program still had commercial value but for
the pirates out there.

Pirating software is theft; copying a page from a magazine is a copyright
violation so that is theft too.  Probably the only thing keeping the ProSel-16
manual from being photocopied and distributied is that my $10 fee is cheaper
than the paper and photocopy charges plus mine is nicely bound.

ChuckN
Chuck Newby
Charlie's AppleSeeds
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