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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
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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
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