Destruction of piracy as a class

ZXNet echo conference «zx.spectrum»

From Andrew Savichev To All 11 March 1998


Hi, All!
Hi, Tim.

Well, now we know who our defender of piracy is ;)
> AS> Piracy must be ended as a class, maybe even with Stalinist
> AS> methods, i.e. destroy them as a class!
>Physically? :)
This is a provocation...I think they are people too and the main thing is if they understand
that they can do something useful and get good money for it.
Do you think that everything is explained by the meager ration for software and its quality?
That is. if the ChV had not proudly soared alone, then they would not have gnawed all of them at once?
Isn’t this a delusion?
After all, the more wolves there are, the fewer guns there are near each sheep and
dogs too.
>
>For what? On the Black Crow? Or on a couple of new programs a year?
And just think about it, what’s the point of working hard for six months for $100?
After all, the author will “stretch his legs” without even finishing a single masterpiece.
But if there are 5000 of us and every third person pays $0.5 to the author and
an honest trader, and not to a hacker and pirate, then it will come out to more than $800.
After all, the majority hackers can write software themselves!
But they don’t do this precisely because of the inability to earn money
“honest work.” Breaking down doesn't mean building, it will take three times less time, or even 10 times less. So it turns out that “we used to go to commissars, but now
to bandits” :(
>
> AS> either we destroy them, or they will bendSpectrum :(
>The last two points can be combined into one.
I don’t understand...a person is already a corpse, and the microbes that destroyed him continue to live for some time
There will be no authors, but there will be pirates!
Only the pitiful, hungry, feral, because, unlike wolves, they are such fools
that they don’t understand that by ruining authors, they are ruining themselves!
If only there was some kind of convention developed in the manner of “the children of Lieutenant Schmidt.”

>
> AS> The simplest and most unrealistic thing would be to persuade these buyers not
> AS> to buy stolen goods, that is, simply “encode them”! Spectrum
> AS> will die"
>
>Any normal hacker-pirate goes through the game himself before selling it. Having seen the inscription,
>he will break it too and write some nasty stuff in its place.
Well, after the above, we will erase the inscriptions?

> AS> In general, _total psychological terror_ is a pretty
> AS> thing, especially since we have a susceptibility to this
> AS> has been in our genes since the time of the father of all nations.
>
>“you” - who has it :)
>Me too, “terror” :)))))))))
And your ancestors, excuse me, shot or were shot...maybedo not
answer.
>
>The problem with any piracy can be solved simply. When there is nothing to steal,
>the pirates will also disappear.
I know a simpler way... this is my SpectrumNetSoft project,
but unfortunately it, along with the pirates, seems to destroy the traders, and
they don’t want N-traders, which is a shame!
>

Regards, Andrey Savichev/CGS, coordinator SpectrumNetSoft

From Tim Yunaev To All 13 March 1998

AS> And just think about it, what’s the point of working hard for six months for $100?

None.

AS> After all, the author will “stretch his legs” without even finishing a single masterpiece.
AS> But if there are 5000 of us and every third person pays $0.5 each to the author and
AS> to an honest trader,

Andrey, this _unreal_. You know it yourself. He won't pay. The maximum you can
count on is 10% of the total amount (a very positive forecast).

AS> and not for a hacker and a pirate, it will cost more than $800. After all, most
AS> hackers can write software themselves!

A common misconception. Breaking is not building.

AS> But they don’t do this precisely because of the impossibility of earning money
AS> “by honest labor.” Breaking down doesn't mean building, it will take three times less time
AS>, or even 10 times. So it turns out that “we used to become commissars,
AS> and now we become bandits”:(

And there will be more money.