stanly@unmvax.UUCP (03/30/85)
Hello,
In all the articles that I have been reading, one think keeps
being repeated and repeated.
Software stealing is as bad as robbing a bank or holding up a
7-11 except on a smaller scale.
Piracy is a bad term for copying diskettes. When you steal a program,
you are making a copy of it and not taking from the other person. You
are not stealing it or pirating it but you are COPYING it.
Better lets call it:
Software stealing is as bad as copying tapes or records.
Another thing is that not all copying is for stealing purposes. Some people
back up software with "the great pirate programs". Last week in the local
apple computer club, a new rule was created.
No copying is allowed in the club. Anybody caught copying software
will have all the software they have on them checked to see if it is
a copy and not the real thing. If it is a copy, IT WILL BE ERASED!
Two days later somebody went into my backpack and took most of my diskettes.
True, some of them were copys but most were the real thing. If you are not
allowed to backup your disks, how are you to protect yourself? Most
copying is for pirating purposes so that if somebody said, " I am
backing up this stuff " , what are you supposed to think? The thief knew
you could not get me to copy it for him so he stole it.
Send me mail . . . I L O V E mail
Josh Siegel
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Stanly Steinberg
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131
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