Piracy

Recently, The Toronto Star published an article entitled 'RCMP
seizes BBS, piracy charges pending.' The RCMP have possessed all
computer components belonging to the '90 North' bulletin board
system in Montreal, Quebec. The board is accused of allowing
people the opportunity to download (get) commercial and beta (or
commercial) software versions. I feel that the RCMP should not
charge people that are linked to computer piracy, because the
pirated software offers valuable opportunity to programmers and
users. Also, revenue lost to the large software companies is such
a small amount that…