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In article <1237@pasteur.Berkeley.Edu> seitz@cory.Berkeley.EDU.UUCP (Matthew Eric Seitz) writes:
>In article <393@nunki.usc.edu" I wrote:
>"  While we're on the subject of type-in magazines...
>"  Does anyone know why magazines make a "big deal" (relatively speaking) about
>"how their type-in programs cannot be sent around (on bulletin boards, for
>"instance)? 
>
>	It is indeed because of copyright.  If everyone could freely distribute
>programs from magazines, the incentive to purchase the magazine would be 
>reduced.  It's really no different from any other kind of software piracy.

  Does this mean that the magazine publishers think people buy their
publications SOLELY for the type-in programs?  I always bought an issue of
(fill in your favorite magazine here) for the articles/tutorials in it.
Type-in games and programs are merely icing on the cake.

  Besides, has any magazine ever persecuted anyone for uploading a
type-in program to a BBS, or for distributing copies of a type-in program?
Seems like a really minor point to me...


						--R.J.
						B-)

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