Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!ptsfa!ames!sri-spam!rutgers!atux01!perry From: perry@atux01.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: software piracy/copy protection Message-ID: <479@atux01.UUCP> Date: Tue, 7-Jul-87 13:51:03 EDT Article-I.D.: atux01.479 Posted: Tue Jul 7 13:51:03 1987 Date-Received: Thu, 9-Jul-87 06:17:16 EDT References: <1223@spice.cs.cmu.edu> <457@pttesac.UUCP> Organization: AT&T CSEd/CET, Piscataway, N.J. Lines: 31 Summary: Food, Rent, Etc. I just want to add to this discussion that pirates DO take such simple pleasures as FOOD and RENT away from the authors of software. Not all authors are members of million dollar publishing conglomerates. Some (if not most) are people just like you and me putting in huge efforts hoping for some material reward. Pirates subvert the very basis of the industry. In our case, we took what we thought was a new approach. Give a lot to the community. Provide a quality product. Keep the cost low. Don't copy protect. Even ASK people not to pirate. We thought somehow we would be spared from piracy because of the things we've done for the community and the other things mentioned above. How'd this idea work out? (ie: place trust in our fellow person?) Well in one case someone uploaded Facc and its manuals (complete with copy- right notice and plea not to pirate) to a bbs and called it ``newadd- buffers.'' Here everyone. Feast upon this! Some schmuck trusted us! You people who pirate software must come to understand the very real effect your theft has on small (and large) software authors and pub- lishers. You're stealing. You're depriving people of their basic right of compensation for labor. You're depriving people of their basic needs like paying rent. Or buying food. You think this is over dramatizing the situation? Try quitting YOUR job and pinning all YOUR hopes on a software product. We'll see how you feel about piracy then. Just say no - to software theft. Perry S. Kivolowitz