Author: Albert Silver
Date: 10:18:07 06/12/03
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On June 12, 2003 at 12:56:00, margolies,marc wrote:
>Michael,
>Of course I respect your opinion. And in general, a laissez-faire attitude from
>a censor is a very good thing.
>This poster is searching for like minded thieves to make connections. He
>shouldn't do it here. And the acceptablity of his post in this case is not a
>function of how persons here publicly respond to him. It becomes a function of
>whether he can get what he wants under the table from posting here and what will
>certainly follow can affect the legitimite dialogs here and who might chose to
>post here.
>Won't you please reconsider this kind of censorship and take prophalaxis?
>-marc
I don't know. Perhaps living in Brazil gives me a different perspective, but I
took his question at face value, and not necessarily as an invitation to link
up. The reason I say this, is because piracy is so absurdly rampant here, it
would no doubt shock many to the bones. Let me give you a couple of examples:
- Most if not all of the major newspapers carry at least a weekly section on
computers, software, internet, etc. These sections invariably carry a number of
specialized classified ads. Well, just as an example, O Globo
(http://oglobo.glob.com) is one of the nation's largest papers, and one will
typically find anywhere between 50-100 ads openly advertising pirated software.
They'll offer package deals, etc. Ugly, very ugly.
- Downtown, one will find TONS of street vendors with racks and racks of pirated
software on display, all with cheap photocopied sleeves sold for a few bucks.
Photoshop, 3 bucks, Microsoft Office, 3 bucks (I'm converting the currency BTW),
etc. And yes, there are cops everywhere who do nothing.
So there is no need to seek out anyone. Being honest is a choice, period. In
fact, even on the Internet there is nothing easier than finding pirated
software, so why on earth would anyone need to resort to a forum such as this
for such subterfuge? One would really need to have holes in one's head if you
ask me, so I just take it as a discussion, nothing more.
Albert
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>
>On June 12, 2003 at 06:25:32, Mike Byrne wrote:
>
>>On June 12, 2003 at 02:23:02, margolies,marc wrote:
>>
>>>we should not facilitate or condone piracy here. th+row h+im back to rgcc
>>
>>looking at the original post, and taking it at face value --I felt it was ok.
>>The skeptic in me perceived saw the question as a "baiting" question to drum up
>>support for facilitating or condoning piracy. Were the thread to evolve into
>>that, it will be deleted without question.
>>
>>
>>It is also hard to take the question seriously as posed, as the author combined
>>the words "research" with "guesses". It may be a paper, but I would not
>>categorized it as a research paper in the context of how I would view a research
>>paper.
>>
>>Best, Michael
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