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Re: Intellectual Properties and the Theft Thereof
Posted By: wintermute, on host 80.46.167.179
Date: Thursday, July 31, 2003, at 09:01:07
In Reply To: Re: Intellectual Properties and the Theft Thereof posted by Don the Monkeyman on Thursday, July 31, 2003, at 08:17:01:

> > winter"used the free trial and unsubscribed. Is that ethical?"mute
>
> Interesting question. I would say yes; they must expect a significant number of people to do just that, and you now know enough about the service to (possibly) consider using it yourself in future and (past tense) make other people aware of it on well-read public forums.
>
> Now, if you found a way to keep signing up for the free trial over and over again pretending to be someone else each time, THAT would be unethical.
>
> Don

I don't imagine it's difficult for them to limit it to one trial per email address, or per computer (as you have to use their download manager). And I am thinking about signing up as a paid member, when their catalogue grows, and I have more hard drive space.

wintermute

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