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Subject: Re: A Shame...

Author: Miguel A. Ballicora

Date: 08:52:27 09/18/02

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On September 17, 2002 at 23:11:47, Dann Corbit wrote:

>On September 17, 2002 at 23:05:59, Fernando Villegas wrote:
>
>>What do you mean? That I live in a backward country where the most you can get
>>are feathers for the hat?
>
>Not at all.  If something is made where you live, can I get it here?  Probably
>not.

As long as I can get chilean wines I am happy :-)
And in fact, I do here in East Lansing, Michigan. Chilean wines are _excellent_
and inexpensive (argentines too, similar geography close to the Andes). Best
Quality/price ratio. This is not off topic, because these might be the wines
that Fernando uses to trick the Masters in their machine-human games :-)

>
>>Or just perhaps we are very far?
>>Sorry, but it is not the case, although I know many USA citizens really believe
>>that outhamrica is like is showed in those movies where peoplea, around noon,
>>just put the head in a wall and get a siesta. And respect distance, well, all
>>kind of world products come here without problem. In fact I have acces to every
>>kind of sofware, games or utilities, cheap or expensive, whatever, so the
>>problem is not something wrong or weird or particular with my  country, but
>>something wrong and idiotic in the marketing practices of ubisoft.
>
>I think they are afraid of piracy.  Just a wild guess.

I do not think that not selling will decrease piracy. On the contrary, pirates
use internet. Even worse, if you cannot find a legal product even if you look
for it, the temptation to get an illegal copy increases tremendously.
Besides, why would you (as a for profit company) care about piracy in a place
where you do not want to sell anyway?
I does not make sense to me.

Regards,
Miguel



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