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echo: nopiracy
to: KALMAN DANIEL
from: MICHAEL LUTZ
date: 1997-05-24 09:05:00
subject: piracy

KD> KD>I told you you haven't lived here before...
KD> ML> That's doesn't matter. It doesn't change whether somethings right or
KD> ML> not.
KD>It actually does.  Would you steal a bottle of water in your corner shop ?
KD>guess (and hope) not. Would you do it in a desert to save your family ?
That's not a real situation. It's almost impossible for that to happen.
What we're talking about happens everyday.
KD> ML> The same punishment for shoplifting.
KD>And what s the punishment for shoplifting where you live ?  In Hungary, 
AFAI
KD>there's an amount of money that one would have to pay in this case. (no 
jail
It depends whether they have a record or not. The first couple of times
they get away with it scott free with just having to give it back.
KD> ML> Whether I think it would work or
KD> ML> not is more my opoinion on how difficult we should be on children.
KD>IMHO the reason behind most laws is to cinvince people to avoid those
KD>situations. If a punishment does not teach, it's pointless.
Exactly. But here kids don't fear the law unless they kill someone. They
need to get much tougher.
KD> ML> I mean the only way to enforce is to go into someones home and check.
KD>Yes. And I wouldn't want any software organisation to come in my home and
KD>check my PC.  Besides, what would they do if I encrypted my hard disk a
KD>little ?  Can they prove in the US that the software they made by cracking 
m
KD>hard disk's encryption is the same I stole ?
So you're agree withing me that your idea woouldn't work? :)
KD> KD> ML> People abuse return policies bad enough now.
KD> KD> ML> And it's so much easier to do so much more when you consider 
softwa
KD> KD>Well, it's solved easily here:  no compulsory return policies on 
softwar
KD> KD>Think you'd like it ?
KD> ML> I'm not sure what compulsory means.
KD>Compulsory means that something is in the law, that every company has to 
hav
KD>these policies.  And as I said, these laws do not exist in Hungary.
Than you need to change the laws...well not *you* but you know what I
mean.
Ps. I know someone from Hungary. She went to Poland got an education for
almost free and came here to work. She made a way fro herself. To do so
she learned two more languages but she did it.
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