Piracy...? (was: ADVOCACY: Re: a blurb)

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From: Jan T. Kim
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 19:41

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In <H.ea.FH&lt92CZgQ@yonder.equinox.gen.nz> craig@yonder.equinox.gen.nz (Craig Shore) writes:

>There's tonns & tonns of ST stuff pirated. I've heard that there's people
> around the world that have thousands of copies of pirated software.
>There are groups in some places in europe where it's perfectly legal
> to copy anything (no copyright laws covering software) that crack
> the protection off each new piece of software when it comes out and
> release the unprotected version with their groups name all over it. These
> copies manage to make their way all around the world so many ST owners
> must be sharing pirated stuff around!!

I wonder where in Europe those places are... at  least,  I  never
heard  of  such  places before. If they exist, don't they make an
excellent test case for verifying all those predictions that  are
made  by people arguing for or against copyrighted software? Tell
me more!

Greetinx, Jan

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From: aeg03@rrz.uni-koeln.de (Jan T. Kim)
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Subject: Piracy...? (was: ADVOCACY: Re: a blurb)
Date: 21 Jan 1993 20:41:17 +0100
Organization: Regional Computing Center, University of Cologne
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