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From: mwm@eris.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Copy protection: boycott it!
Message-ID: <4310@jade.BERKELEY.EDU>
Date: Wed, 8-Jul-87 22:12:10 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jul  8 22:12:10 1987
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Reply-To: mwm@eris.BERKELEY.EDU (Mike (My watch has windows) Meyer)
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Keywords: software terrorism, copy protection, South Africa

To those wishing this would go away: I think it's winding down. If you
really want it to go away, suggest a *serious* other newsgroup. I'll
gladly move it there.

In article <2489@husc6.UUCP> hadeishi@husc4.UUCP (mitsuharu hadeishi) writes:
I think you're working for EA has biased you towards them, and copy
<>protection in general. They are a major force in the Amiga market. Them
<>going out of business would be a moderatly bad thing for the Amiga
<
<	Not to mention a terrible thing for the people who work there.
Ah, so you think the Amiga is a game machine, then. Or you want the
<>populace to percieve it that way.
<
<	Non sequitur.

No, it isn't, you keep yammering about games. If the Amiga isn't a
game machine, then game makers should be a small part of the market.
If they are an important part of the market, then it's a game machine.

<>That's exactly the kind of blind following that's lead to the downfall
<>of nations. Remember - Question Authority.
<
<	Right on!  (I'm just questioning Your authority in this case.)

What Authority? I haven't given any commands, just urged people not to
buy broken software. I didn't make any pleas about not buying the copy
protected software being a disservice to the community, I didn't call
refusing to deal with a company that consistenlty sells broken
software "small-minded vindictiveness", and didn't try to play on
peoples moral sense by pointing out that some company could (horrors)
go out of business if people didn't do their duty by buying buggy or
copy protected software. About the worst I did was call not buying
copy protected software "politically correct" twice.  [See, I can walk
on the thin line of the ad-hominem attack, too.]

<>I've never urged people not to buy all products from any specific
<>company.
<
<	But some people do. 

About the worst I've seen is people claiming that other people have
quit buying software from companies because they keep getting burned.
That's legitimate information to pass on about a company.