Software piracy exposed

A voice crying in the wilderness!

Finally... a more balanced opinion. Thank you! :)
 
Thanks for that - they need a little 'cutting down to size' at the BSA or wotever they call themselves.

FOSS ftw!
 
I wouldn't mind buying software locally if it wasn't so marked up. Buying applications like top end graphic / web design apps through local resellers see you paying through your back-side when you see how much it would cost you buying it online, not to mention at a fraction of the complications.
 
This article sounds a little better than the previous piracy one.

"100 hours of music"....only 100? I know people with 150GB of music.... that's 30000 songs.... 150hours of non-stop music.... Imagine having to buy that.
 
Well said.

BSA likes to twist the truth.

A previous time they caused panic with people who could not afford MS products, it actually backfired because people swithced to OpenOffice.
 
BSA are liars.. or at the very best.. warped truth tellers. They disgust me :(
 
Exactly....the simple truth is this: if there as no way to pirate software or no way to obtain pirated software, most people couldn't afford it and I would like to believe (naively) that then most people would definitely switch to open source software.
 
Origin248 said:
Exactly....the simple truth is this: if there as no way to pirate software or no way to obtain pirated software, most people couldn't afford it and I would like to believe (naively) that then most people would definitely switch to open source software.
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Exactly... which is what companies like MS dont want. They would prefer you pirate their product than use the open source alternative.
 
w1z4rd said:
Exactly... which is what companies like MS dont want. They would prefer you pirate their product than use the open source alternative.
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True. Bill Gates openly admitted that in a question and answer presentation he did with some college students in the US some time back.
 
I haven't paid a cent for any of the the software or games on my pc, but then again, it's all licensed and protected by the gnu
 
Very true about the 1:1 relationship. People will get a game for example, play it, see if they like it and go and buy it ... if they dont... they delete it.
 
TelkomUseless said:
Very true about the 1:1 relationship. People will get a game for example, play it, see if they like it and go and buy it ... if they dont... they delete it.
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If they kept it all... they would be spending millions more on hard drives and storage! Yay, for the Hardware industry! What they don't spend on software is also partly reclaimed by the sales of Storage related goods! ;)

um, but not me... I don't have enough storage space :(
 
froot said:
This article sounds a little better than the previous piracy one.

"100 hours of music"....only 100? I know people with 150GB of music.... that's 30000 songs.... 150hours of non-stop music.... Imagine having to buy that.
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Who has the time to listen to 150GB of music? If anything people willing to buy music will pay for stuff they're willing to listen to. I have lots of cds and I don't see myself buying stuff at whim and only stuff I listen to.
 
Really gewd article, we need more written like this one :)

I listen in a month about 150hrs of music, I certainly wouldn't mind paying for it but I download it for free as it is recorded from radio stations (Radio 1, Radio FG etc) :D

open source ftw
 
PeterCH said:
Who has the time to listen to 150GB of music? If anything people willing to buy music will pay for stuff they're willing to listen to. I have lots of cds and I don't see myself buying stuff at whim and only stuff I listen to.
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My point exactly. But consider movies on the other hand. I know someone with 2TB of them. That's around ~2000 movies. They watch them and store them on their big mofo harddrives. But they still don't buy them.
 
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