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Article #2043Software Piracy Survey
From: TerrellE
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 1989 16:06
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 1989 16:06
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Atari ST Piracy Survey The following is a little survey about software piracy. Please send your responses to me (att!druhi!terrell) and I'll post an annonymous summary of the results. Please "fill in the blanks" with a text editor. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Answers: 1 I Entirely Agree 2 I Partially Agree 3 I Totally Disagree N/A This question doesn't apply to me B I choose to not answer this question 1. Atari ST users are worse pirates than users of other machines ___. 2. As an Atari ST User, I would never buy a copy-protected game program ___. 3. As an Atari ST User, I would never buy a copy-protected utility program ___. 4. As an Atari ST User, I would never buy a copy-protected educational program ___. 5. If I were a software developer, I would never copy-protect a game program that I developed ___. 6. If I were a software developer, I would never copy-protect a utility program that I developed ___. 7. If I were a software developer, I would never copy-protect a educational program that I developed ___. 8. I own pirated copies of some Atari ST software ___. 9. Of the pirated copies of Atari ST software that I own, I would buy the product if I had the proper incentive ___. 10. If I find a "borrowed" copy of a program useful, I always buy the program ___. 11. I use disk copying software to make backup copies of the copy- protected software that I own ___. 12. Software piracy can be exploited by software marketers to increase their profits ___. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!att!mtuxo!mtgzz!drutx!druhi!terrell From: terrell@druhi.ATT.COM (TerrellE) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Software Piracy Survey Message-ID: <4348@druhi.ATT.COM> Date: 26 Jun 89 16:06:56 GMT Reply-To: terrell@druhi.ATT.COM (TerrellE) Organization: AT&T, Denver, CO Lines: 53