From: dohduhdah@yahoo.com   
      
   On Monday, March 13, 2023 at 11:58:49 PM UTC+1, nospam wrote:   
   > In article <10ip5eu7qrgvp$.d...@news.solani.org>, RonTheGuy   
   >  wrote:    
   >    
   > > We have to ask why is Apple putting a unique identification into each of    
   > > our apps   
   > asked and answered many times. the answer is anti-piracy.    
   >    
   > we have to ask why anyone would be so concerned about that. the answer    
   > is because there are those who pirate software (as well as music and    
   > videos), including some on this very newsgroup.   
   > > when no other OS company has ever felt the need to do that to us.   
   > *many* companies put a 'unique identification' in their app or utilize    
   > other anti-piracy measures. it's not new, and goes back to the early    
   > days of personal computing.   
      
   Piracy is basically a myth perpetuated by people who are clueless about   
   information technology.   
   Everything people share online (music, video, art, porn, apps, books, etc..) is   
   basically just a bunch of big numbers and all numbers belong to the public   
   domain.   
      
   So people claiming to own a number with 23059235 digits as their intellectual   
   property (which might be a digital file that supposedly infringes copyrights)   
   is   
   equally insane as someone claiming to own the number 329.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)