Reader Response

May, 1995

"One might best describe his actions as heedlessly irresponsible and, at worst, as nihilistic, self-indulgent and lacking in any fundamental sense of values. [Allowing this case to proceed could criminalize the conduct] of the myriad of home computer users who succumb to the temptation to copy even a single software program for private use. It isn't clear that making criminals of a large number of consumers of computer software is a result that even the software industry would consider desi...