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Sazerac · 01-10-2002, 12:37 PM

There is NEVER a justification for software piracy. It runs the price for new games up for the rest of us, puts legitimate companies out of business or at least in a straitened financial position, and is plain morally and ethically WRONG.

One can try to justify it and rationalize it any way you can, but there is no getting out of it...pirating software is STEALING, plain and simple.

Would you try to justify shoplifting? Or bankrobbing? It amounts to the same thing. Maybe the dollar values are different, but it still comes down to the fact that you are gaining access to a product that you have not purchased the legal rights to obtain.

I have read through the thread in question on the Wizardry 8 forum, and am shocked, dismayed, and frankly disgusted. I am posting a link to the thread in question here, so you can see, and judge, for yourselves:

http://www.ironworksforum.com/ubb/cg...&f=15&t=000211

I think Scronan and Ziroc have said it most adequately without intervention on my part, however, if I see any more infractions of the rules Ziroc has laid down there, I will jump in both feet first.

-Sazerac

01-10-2002, 12:37 PM	#3
Sazerac Ironworks Moderator Join Date: January 7, 2001 Location: Monroe, LA Age: 61 Posts: 7,387	There is NEVER a justification for software piracy. It runs the price for new games up for the rest of us, puts legitimate companies out of business or at least in a straitened financial position, and is plain morally and ethically WRONG. One can try to justify it and rationalize it any way you can, but there is no getting out of it...pirating software is STEALING, plain and simple. Would you try to justify shoplifting? Or bankrobbing? It amounts to the same thing. Maybe the dollar values are different, but it still comes down to the fact that you are gaining access to a product that you have not purchased the legal rights to obtain. I have read through the thread in question on the Wizardry 8 forum, and am shocked, dismayed, and frankly disgusted. I am posting a link to the thread in question here, so you can see, and judge, for yourselves: http://www.ironworksforum.com/ubb/cg...&f=15&t=000211 I think Scronan and Ziroc have said it most adequately without intervention on my part, however, if I see any more infractions of the rules Ziroc has laid down there, I will jump in both feet first. -Sazerac __________________ "And all my days are trances, and all my nightly dreams, Are where thy grey eye glances, and where thy footstep gleams, In what ethereal dances, by what eternal streams..."