Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!iuvax!cica!gatech!udel!mmdf 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 Lines: 10 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?