yeah. its a bit like that. At 11:15 a.m. 25/05/2007, you wrote: >Hi Shaun, >Regardless of weather someone puts an, " if you like this buy it, " type >message on it it is still software piracy and is still theft. >Look at it like this. If a guy puts out a crack out for an accessible >game, slaps a disclaimer on it knowing full well most people will ignore >it, and then makes it available he still is consciously breaking the end >user license and has contributed to a theft. If I then come along, >download that game an it's crack, and later don't buy it I have stolen >that game from the company that produced it. Shame on the guy who put >the crack out there, and double shame on me for steeling it. >In short putting a warning on a program not to steel it even though you >put it up for that very purpose is a crime. >It is almost like the cigarette companies here in the USA that print >warning labels on the cigarette packs stating something like, "Danger! >Use of this product may cause heart attacks, cancer, strokes, and death..." >Ok, since the cigarette companies know their product do those things >making their product is morally and ethically wrong. Yet they always can >state the end user baught the product, smoked it, and suffered the >results of his or her own actions. Yet, the cigarette companies in truth >can not be totally inocent, because they knowingly, willingly, and >without conscience sold several people a product that will cause them >physical harm. >An accesible game is no different. If you crack a game, and give it away >you are morally responcible for that other persons theft. > > >_______________________________________________ >Gamers mailing list .. [email protected] >To unsubscribe send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can visit >http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org to make >any subscription changes via the web. > > > >-- >No virus found in this incoming message. >Checked by AVG Free Edition. >Version: 7.5.467 / Virus Database: 269.8.0/817 - Release Date: 24/05/2007 4:01 >p.m.
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