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What the CD says
H_TeXMeX_H:
Stealing in the computer rhealm is not the same as in the physical rhealm ... it's more like espionage ... nothing ever gets stolen, just copied ... and hopefully noone ever finds out :D
... this of course does not help the argument for 'piracy', since the punishment for espionage is often death ;)
piratePenguin:
--- Quote from: H_TeXMeX_H ---Stealing in the computer rhealm is not the same as in the physical rhealm ... it's more like espionage ... nothing ever gets stolen, just copied ... and hopefully noone ever finds out :D
... this of course does not help the argument for 'piracy', since the punishment for espionage is often death ;)
--- End quote ---
Jesus, let's just call it "copying". Nobody gets hurt, no secrets revealed, it has the same effect as stealing from a store except the store keeps what was "stolen".
I'd be fairly pissed off if someone stole my computer, but if they copied it it wouldn't be so bad.
H_TeXMeX_H:
Well, ok copying is more sensible ...
[OFFTOPIC]
And I think someone hacked my box yesterday. All of a sudden there were 2 users active ... this usually happens when a terminal is open ... only I never opened any terminal ... this happened twice with reboots in-between ... then I changed my passwords and it stopped ... fucking hackers :mad: [/OFFTOPIC]
Aloone_Jonez:
What OS were you running?
This sounds like Winblow$ to me. :D
Calum:
it's exactly the same thing as home taping, which was also allegedly the scourge of prerecorded music in the '70s and '80s. It actually enabled many people to listen to a wide variety of music, thus promoting the artistes on the tape.
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