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Re: Net piracy?



In article <306ev5$jko@bmerha64.bnr.ca>, Jeffrey Robertson
<jeffr@bmerha2a.bnr.ca> wrote:

[...]
>Well, depending on how you look at it, piracy and/or software protection
>killed the Apple II (among others).  The kind of pirating I'm talking

Now that's just plain silly.  The only way you might think that is if your
glasses were painted over.  What "killed" (uh, hello, it's not dead yet)
the Apple II was Apple deciding that they didn't want the II as a part of
their future.  It's incredibly simple, really.

>about won't hurt people though.  At any event, a return to copy protection
>would be a Bad Thing (tm).