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In article <BzB7yM.9u0@ccu.umanitoba.ca> ens@ccu.umanitoba.ca writes:
>Software piracy is decidedly a grey area. Tom is far too poor

Bull. There is nothing "grey" about software piracy.  Piracy is a euphamism
for theft. If you use software that you have not legally obtained a license
for use then you have stolen it. Period. Nothing grey about it!

>I have seen this scenario play out many times. It's illegal, yes.
>But as bad as stealing 6 TVs? Get serious.

You tell that to my son when I can't buy him shoes because software sales are
down and then I get calls for product support from three times the number of
users than can be accounted for by legal sales.  You would be surprised how
many unique stories people come up with for why they don't know there
registration number AND never sent in their card AND can't find their manual 
AND lost their orginal disk.

It happens, it's real, it's illegal, and it is killing ST developers.

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>Werner
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