Author: Marc Plum
Date: 18:21:28 06/04/99
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Try talking some time with some of the people who steal these programs. Basically, they want what they want, and will always find some way to excuse it for themselves. They are surprised and indignant when people criticize them. There were a couple of threads here recently, where one of our members seemed completely blind to the ethical questions involved in such piracy, and kept trying to justify it. RGCC has frequently had questions about finding stolen versions of software. Mind, I can understand someone feeling a little envious if they have Rebel Decade and ChessBase Light, while others have collections of almost every commercial program, but so what? I envy my friend's big screen TV, but I'm not going to steal one. The only thing to do is prosecute whenever possible, and let the thieves see our disapproval when it isn't. Marc On June 04, 1999 at 13:41:43, Dann Corbit wrote: >With all the excellent *free* chess programs that are available, why would >anyone want to steal one? I simply don't understand it. And you can buy CM6000 >for $20! Twenty dollars, for crying out loud! Even the really full-featured >programs are around $100. So why would anyone even *want* to steal one? > >For what I do, I don't think I would ever need anything more than >Crafty+Winboard+CDB+Nalimov TB's. The cost of that complete outfit is $0.00. >And I did buy some programs just for the fun of it. I find that CM5500 stays in >the box, and I play with Winboard and Winboard engines most of the time. >Probably just personal preferences, or perhaps I recall the bitter wounds of my >first game against it, which was a *real* thrashing ;-) > >At any rate, why? I want to know why people would even bother to do it when it >is so completely unnecessary.
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