Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!ukma!sean From: sean@ms.uky.edu (Sean Casey) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Copy protection: boycott it! Message-ID: <6895@g.ms.uky.edu> Date: Mon, 13-Jul-87 02:43:25 EDT Article-I.D.: g.6895 Posted: Mon Jul 13 02:43:25 1987 Date-Received: Tue, 14-Jul-87 00:37:44 EDT References: <4826@sgi.SGI.COM> <4238@jade.BERKELEY.EDU> Reply-To: sean@ms.uky.csnet (Sean Casey) Organization: The Leaning Tower of Patterson Office @ The Univ. of KY Lines: 21 Keywords: piracy, copy protection, bungled burglary In article <2478@husc6.UUCP> hadeishi@husc4.UUCP (mitsuharu hadeishi) writes: > Again, I don't buy it. Many technical people were angry at >EA because they perceived EA as this big, bad company that was out to >rip people off or something. This is totally ridiculous. Maybe they aren't big or bad, but they don't trust their paying customers. >This is simply small-minded >vindictiveness, of the same sort that causes feuds to last for generations, >that causes violence between the Sikhs and the Hindus, the Tamils >and the Buddhists, the prejudice between whites and blacks. No, it's called THE POWER OF THE CONSUMER. Simply put, I am paying your paycheck. If I choose not to do so, then maybe EA will change it's mind. I know a *lot* of Amiga users who are now boycotting CP software. Sean -- --- Sean Casey UUCP: cbosgd!ukma!sean CSNET: sean@ms.uky.csnet --- ARPA: ukma!sean@anl-mcs.arpa BITNET: sean@UKMA.BITNET --- We want... a shrubbery!