Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!orstcs!jacobs.CS.ORST.EDU!bob From: bob@jacobs.CS.ORST.EDU (robert s. richardson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Software thieves (was Re: Software theives) Message-ID: <12133@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU> Date: 20 Aug 89 00:07:47 GMT References: <30706@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> <6846@rpi.edu> <2361@raspail.cdcnet.cdc.com> <6865@rpi.edu> <58013@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> Sender: usenet@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU Reply-To: bob@jacobs.CS.ORST.EDU.UUCP (robert s. richardson) Distribution: usa Organization: Oregon State University - CS - Corvallis Oregon Lines: 22 I used to feel the same way Robert does. But a few years ago when I started selling my own program for the C64 (Sequel BBS, which I wanted to sell for $29 and the publisher wanted to sell for $59) got heavily pirated. I was pissed. Then I realized what I hipocrite I was. Over the past couple years I have purchased everything I use regularly, bought some used games, and covered up the remaining disks with useful PD stuff. And I feel great. I also erased all my videos and am now searching for used copies at video stores. So, now you have a confession of a reformed pirate. I hope other folks follow my example. By the way, does anybody have a used Marble Madness they'd like to sell? I do miss that game. (And a used VHS BladeRunner, Aliens, Brazil, or Ferris Bueller would be welcome as well.) Enough preaching, thanks for listening, | Bob Richardson (or, for you UNIX buffs: bob@jacobs.cs.orst.edu) | | 218 NW 21st #2 Corvallis, OR 97330 503-758-5018 | | "They can't afford to pay their taxes... There must be too | | many economists in the government." -- The Doctor |