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From: mike@ames.arpa (Mike Smithwick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga Software Piracy (names, addresses, numbers and pictures)
Message-ID: <2376@ames.arpa>
Date: Fri, 17-Jul-87 12:48:34 EDT
Article-I.D.: ames.2376
Posted: Fri Jul 17 12:48:34 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 18-Jul-87 14:52:28 EDT
References: <4347@jade.BERKELEY.EDU>
Reply-To: mike@ames.UUCP (Mike Smithwick)
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Organization: NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif.
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Summary: Pirate BBS

[mmmmmm]

(a bunch of stuff, Randy, you're too wordy :-)

>possibility that someone will hear about our program that wouldn't
>have otherwise.  Of course, Mike (powered by M & M's) Smithwick is
>also on this net, he wrote the program, I don't know how he feels...

I think I'll shoot myself.

Seriously, I'm wondering if I should be flattered that my program is being
pirated. 

One of the attractions of collecting pirated software is the collector
mentality ("Gee, you have only 123 titles, I've got 451!"). 
Baseball cards are an appropriate analogy. I was very upset when Randy first told me of this place, but I do realize that just because some slimeball pirates  
a program doesn't mean that he would've bought it in the first place. 

I'll be the first to admit that I've done my share of bootlegging with
the 64 a few years back and the Apple ][. Out of the couple of hundred
programs I had, were about 4 or 5 that I would've bought, the rest never
interested me whatsoever, except in the way I could boast about the 
numbers or new titles.

One way to discourage this whole business in the first place is to have
nothing to do with anyone who pirates stuff. Don't swap new fish disks with 
them, ignore them on the streets, don't let your kids play with theirs, don't 
sit on the same side of the church that they do. In general, let them 
know that they are not welcome.

Oh well. . .



-- 
				   *** mike (powered by M&Ms) smithwick ***
"ever felt like life was a game, and 
someone gave you the wrong instruction book?"
[discalimer : nope, I don't work for NASA, I take full blame for my ideas]