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From: pfaff@mercury.asd.contel.com (Ray Pfaff - Oakwood 457 934-8162)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re:  Software Sales Strategies vs. Piracy
Message-ID: <21918@louie.udel.EDU>
Date: 17 Aug 89 20:17:57 GMT
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Mike Snook writes:
>  Hollywood knows they can't stop people from making pirate copies of their
>movies, too.  there are differences in the analogy, a Big Screen presentation
>can't be matched by anything in the home, a copied tape isn't as good as the
>original, neither of these things are true of pirated software,  ...

I've avoided commenting on this string for a long time, since it is really a 
matter of the morality of the people involved with pirating, but why would
you think that a pirated program without documentation or registration  
is just as good as if it were bought with these things?