Re: Piracy

[kloesch@nauticom.net (Kevin Loesch)]

In article <5ekh8a$hro@inet-nntp-gw-1.us.oracle.com>, cheer@i.hate.spam (Christopher D. Heer) wrote:
>It was 13 Feb 1997 11:38:57 GMT.  I was reading instead of working.  And Steven
> 
>H. Lichter <co057@cleveland.Freenet.Edu> said:
>
>>dastar@crl.com (Sam Ismail)
>
>>Said:
>>:You've been watching too many re-runs of Starsky and Hutch or something.
>>:This, I assure you, will not happen.  Feds in California have more
>>:important things to do like busting doctors for prescribing marijuana
>>:to their dying patients.
>
>>Well part of what you said is right, but the Software Publishers
>>Association will get involved and they do have limited police powers.
>
>"Police" powers?  Are you certain?  I don't remember hearing that the SPA had 
>been deputised or anything.

        Do you think they really care? Does anyone really care about piracy of 
10 or 15 year old software? When is the last time you walked into a store and 
saw apple II software for sale? 4-5 years ago? The developers who wrote this 
stuff have moved on and don't seemed too interested in this old software or 
else they would still try to sell it. I do not condone piracy of software that 
is still produced and being sold(Oregon trail by MECCA is an example), but the 
vast majority of II and IIgs software is no longer commercially available and 
it definitly isn't commercially viable or else these companies would still 
sell it. Face it, the Apple II market is commercially dead. Its is going to 
stay dead. I still love my machines but I have no fanasties that the apple II 
is going to make some giant comeback and reconquer the world. Let peaple enjoy 
the machines they have. If all the Anti-Piracy crusaders had their way anyone 
who picked up a used machine at a garage sale would be stuck running only 
BASIC  and DOS 3.3,  if they were lucky.


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