Re: Piracy

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joko@crl.com (Joe Kohn) wrote:
>Charles Turley has placed me, and some of you, in a very weird and
>uncomfortable situation.
>
>Some of you may think that "anonymous ftp" means that your anonymity is
>protected. But, it's not. Every one of your keystrokes are saved to a
>logfile when you are connected to an anonymous ftp server. Whether you know
>it or not, your actual e-mail address is also logged.
>
>I finally went through the ftp logfile and found out the e-mail addresses
>of everyone who downloaded LemminGS and/or the Convert 3200 source code
>from the adidam site.
>
>Looking at that list was quite a shock.
>
>It leaves me in a horrible situation. What am I going to do? What can I do?
>Forgive and forget? Blame it all on Turley? Turn my other cheek? Post a
>list of pirates? 
>
>I'm not at all pleased about this situation. But, I'm certainly open to 
>suggestions about how to rectify this situation as soon as possible.


Joe, I think you should post the list.  While there are those Apple II
haters, like Randy Shackelford, who think that it is o.k. to rip off
honest developers of software because the software is for a "dead"
computer, there are still those of us who appreciate the bit of life
that diehards developers confer to our beloved computer.

The people on the list can explain themselves after the list is posted.
Remember that the people on the list may not really be the pirates.  If
Shackelford wanted to pirate LemminGS, he could frame Mitch Spector by
deliberately configuring his software to leave Mitch's email address
in the log.

The best solution would be to post the list.  Let the pirates fry and
also verify that no one is being framed this way.  I know that some
pirates may claim frame-up this way, but you would at least be able to
judge, by their answers, who you think is really telling the truth.

It is no secret that I don't agree with what Apple did to the II,
especially the GS, but even if I agreed 100% that Apple was right to
go gung-ho for Mac, I would be sick to the stomach to think that that
makes it right, in some people's mind, to steal software from the
"obsolete" platform.  Post the list.  Make the pirates know that there
is still life in THIS "obsolete" community.

-Scott G.