[computer-go] How to prevent Copyright violations?

[John Doe]

On 9/20/06, Chrilly <c.donninger at wavenet.at> wrote:
>
>
> What makes me also from the moralic point of view furious is the fact,
> that
> this modern hackers have obviously no hacker-ethic. Its another story if
> one
> hacks the product of a monopolist who behaves unfair to the users and puts
> a
> lot of unreasonable restrictions on the product and makes a lot of extra
> profit by asking much too much money for the product.



Not to start too much of an argument, but I fear that this is the very
mindset that fosters thieves and copyright violators.  What is "unfair"?  If
a restriction seems unreasonable or a product price too high to you, does
that justify stealing the product?  Should a company/programmer have the
rights to determine how and for what price their products are distributed,
or should each individual arbitrarily decide what he is willing to put up
with, and steal everything he is not?

It seems to me that really doesn't matter if one is stealing from Microsoft
or from Fritz Reul, the theft is equally ethically indefensible.
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