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From: bga@raspail.cdcnet.cdc.com (Bruce Albrecht)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Software theives
Message-ID: <2361@raspail.cdcnet.cdc.com>
Date: 19 Aug 89 15:18:26 GMT
References: <30706@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> <6846@rpi.edu>
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In article <6846@rpi.edu>, kudla@pawl.rpi.edu (Robert J. Kudla) writes:
> (Some people might think this to be a shift in attitudes coming from
> me. Most people probably don't care one way or the other. But, I
> consider actually lifting product from the shelves to be a crime. I
> don't consider, say, an employee taking a piece of software home,
> copying it, bringing it back and re-shelving it with new labels and
> all to be a crime in the slightest.)

Oh really?  How is it different for the store employee to copy something, than
it is for a prospective customer to copy it?  I could understand the store
employee taking it home and playing with it to gain familiarity and then
returning it, but copying is stealing.  Period.