[comp.sys.amiga] Piracy and "Demos"

jones@uv4.eglin.af.mil (Calvin Jones, III) (06/15/90)

John Meissen <jmeissen@oregon.oacis.org> writes:

> This doesn't mean that we condoned piracy, just that in general a stolen
> copy didn't mean a lost sale because they probably weren't going to buy
> it anyway. If you provide quality documentation and exceptional support
> to legitimate users you will often get a sale out of a stolen copy anyway.

The problem is that when a copy is stolen and passed around, it's 
usually copied with no docs at all, and possibly without some needed 
support files.  The product is quite likely to be less than optimally 
useful and may well hurt the chances for future sales.

   --- Cal