copyright at the point of a gun (fwd)

[Jim Choate]

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> Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1998 21:27:56 +0100
> From: Adam Back <aba at dcs.ex.ac.uk>
> Subject: copyright at the point of a gun

> Judging by the state of software-piracy with PC software with 80-90%+
> piracy rates, the market is already pretty much ok with ignoring
> copyright, and would be happy to have no copyrights.

So long as it isn't money your taking out of their pocket. There is an
obvious double standard at play in the piracy issue.


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