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Article #2416Re: Why do people pirate software?
From: William C. Marsh
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 1990 19:56
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 1990 19:56
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In article <991@ncrwat.Waterloo.NCR.COM> dgs@swdev.Waterloo.NCR.COM (David G. Schwartz) writes:
>When you tape stuff with your VCR, you are in technical violation of
>copyright laws, however most copyright holders turn a blind eye to
>private, non-comercial due to the enforcement problem.
Last I had heard, the airwaves are still public domain, so anything received
from them is public domain, including satellite transmissions. That's why
they decided to scramble the satellite channels, because then you had to
buy a de-scrambler and pay for a password.
Bill
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!samsung!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!ucsd!nosc!cod!bmarsh From: bmarsh@cod.NOSC.MIL (William C. Marsh) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Subject: Re: Why do people pirate software? Message-ID: <2054@cod.NOSC.MIL> Date: 13 Aug 90 19:56:21 GMT References: <1462fullerr@yvax.byu.edu> <Aug.7.15.00.09.1990.12840@dimacs.rutgers.edu> <2847@bruce.cs.monash.OZ.AU> <6092@milton.u.washingto <991@ncrwat.Waterloo.NCR.COM> Reply-To: bmarsh@cod.nosc.mil.UUCP (William C. Marsh) Organization: Naval Ocean Systems Center, San Diego Lines: 17