Software piracy exposed

froot said:
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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you will still get people that just pirate because they can/want to.
 
froot said:
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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I don't have access to new ripped movies like I had in the past, I still don't go to the cinemas more, just not worth spending money on it. I just do without.
 
supersunbird said:
I don't have access to new ripped movies like I had in the past, I still don't go to the cinemas more, just not worth spending money on it. I just do without.
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I have access to almost unlimited new series and movies but I opt not to. I have a laptop and am not going to buy an external just so that I can pirate movies and series....
 
froot said:
I have access to almost unlimited new series and movies but I opt not to. I have a laptop and am not going to buy an external just so that I can pirate movies and series....
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You could use the external for other things:D
And if i go to the movies then its for the "experience" and not so much the content;)
 
I did go to see Rambo, because the rip (one of the few I get these days) I watched made me want to see it on the Big Screen. I wouldn't have gone otherwise. Would rather have rented the DVD for cheap eventually.

I will watch TV shows if I can get them to watch on the PC at my own leisure. If i don't get them I don't feel the need to get DSTV or watch the free to air stuff. Thus if I watch them if I eventually get them noone looses money, cause they wouldn't never have gotten any money.
 
supersunbird said:
I did go to see Rambo, because the rip (one of the few I get these days) I watched made me want to see it on the Big Screen. I wouldn't have gone otherwise. Would rather have rented the DVD for cheap eventually.

I will watch TV shows if I can get them to watch on the PC at my own leisure. If i don't get them I don't feel the need to get DSTV or watch the free to air stuff. Thus if I watch them if I eventually get them noone looses money, cause they wouldn't never have gotten any money.
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This is what they don't understand, the RIAA and BSA and the like. :sick::sick:
 
supersunbird said:
I did go to see Rambo, because the rip (one of the few I get these days) I watched made me want to see it on the Big Screen. I wouldn't have gone otherwise. Would rather have rented the DVD for cheap eventually.

I will watch TV shows if I can get them to watch on the PC at my own leisure. If i don't get them I don't feel the need to get DSTV or watch the free to air stuff. Thus if I watch them if I eventually get them noone looses money, cause they wouldn't never have gotten any money.
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I like your justification. No, really, I do. You make actually illegal stuff really appetizing :D
I also believe in "demo-ing" a movie and then going to watch it. Not that I get to see all that many anyways. Too busy with the rest of my life to watch stuff.
 
HenryJ said:
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This is what they don't understand, the RIAA and BSA and the like. :sick::sick:
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They cannot understand. It goes against their job description. It's like shooting somebody. You shoot somebody in the leg to see how what it feels like and if you like the feeling of shooting somebody, you pull out your 500 Magnum and level the poor guy. Totally irrelevant I know, but feels equivalent to me :D
 
Bravo. The first step for the ASA and BSA and Whoever-the-A, would be to speak the truth, and to be practical and realistic.

Only when their claims carry some credibility, and people start see the value of software and intellectual propery in our economy, will they start to accomplish their goal of ..."protecting and serving" ;p

But..... Hurray for the GPL and Linux. I wonder if there's a GPA out there...... :D
 
PS Thinking about Software and Intellectual property almost instantly gets you thinking about the movie industry and piracy in general...... Are ludicrous profits the plague of capitalism? How much profit does the average movie theater generate?
 
Tunasashimi said:
PS Thinking about Software and Intellectual property almost instantly gets you thinking about the movie industry and piracy in general...... Are ludicrous profits the plague of capitalism? How much profit does the average movie theater generate?
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It used to be a lot. Until of course movie piracy started becoming popular. The first time I saw a pirated movie my friend told me his siter's bf hacked it from Warner Bro's site. <no, seriously. It actually sounds ~~~ now>
 
A good article there that summarises realities as opposed to fiction which the BSA releases on a regular basis.

On the subject of MS Office, there is a very good free alternative, it's called Open Office - no alleged software pirate should be caught without Open Office installed on their PC(s). I wonder when the BSA will start accusing Open Office users of being s/w pirates...
 
ic said:
A good article there that summarises realities as opposed to fiction which the BSA releases on a regular basis.

On the subject of MS Office, there is a very good free alternative, it's called Open Office - no alleged software pirate should be caught without Open Office installed on their PC(s). I wonder when the BSA will start accusing Open Office users of being s/w pirates...
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I have experienced a few bugs in my versions of OpenOffice, but it certainly is a worthy counterpart to office. There are not many pieces of software left for which there isn't a free OpenSource alternative, that either does the same job, or performs better than its M$ equivalent.
 
HenryJ said:
I have experienced a few bugs in my versions of OpenOffice, but it certainly is a worthy counterpart to office. There are not many pieces of software left for which there isn't a free OpenSource alternative, that either does the same job, or performs better than its M$ equivalent.
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One of the reasons I decided not to upgrade my MS Office 2000, was the pricetag attached to the horrid bugginess of MS Office.

The reality is that no software can be considered to have no bugs -especially over time when s/w gets used for slightly different purposes & deployments than what it was originally designed for, not that that really applies to this discussion, just a general statement.
 
ic said:
One of the reasons I decided not to upgrade my MS Office 2000, was the pricetag attached to the horrid bugginess of MS Office.

The reality is that no software can be considered to have no bugs -especially over time when s/w gets used for slightly different purposes & deployments than what it was originally designed for, not that that really applies to this discussion, just a general statement.
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Indeed. The problem is that M$ want to charge and arm and a leg for the same bug-ridden software. Makes me :sick:
 
ic said:
A good article there that summarises realities as opposed to fiction which the BSA releases on a regular basis.

On the subject of MS Office, there is a very good free alternative, it's called Open Office - no alleged software pirate should be caught without Open Office installed on their PC(s). I wonder when the BSA will start accusing Open Office users of being s/w pirates...
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Yeah, won't that be a scene. "Opensource programmers arrested for pirating M$ code" :D
 
Tunasashimi said:
PS Thinking about Software and Intellectual property almost instantly gets you thinking about the movie industry and piracy in general...... Are ludicrous profits the plague of capitalism? How much profit does the average movie theater generate?
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No, ludicrous profits are the "plague" of most industries that get some kind of an artificial monopoly from the government. That can be in anything like oil (only you can drill in the ground), telecommunications (only you can lay cables in the ground), or intellectual property (only you can make copies). Capitalism is just a nice convenient scapegoat for excessive protectionism.
 
all these people (bsa and such) are exaggerating a problem that stems from somewhere else, don't treat the decease but rather the cause?
 
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