Piracy

[The View Askew]

Freeware is created by people who want to throw time into software and let others use it for nothing.


Payware is created by people who want to throw time into software for MONEY.



If you can morally justify the latter, I think it boils down to this,


Software is created, the public desires this software, if the desire is strong enough to pay the money and get the product, the desire to have it for free will also be there to people thus inclined normally.


It is much easier to acquire pirated media than it is to order and wait for it, or go to a retail outlet and buy it, and above all, pay for it.



If you choose to enter a live currency revenue generating MARKET that has physical reasons allowing duplication and personal choice between being "right" and paying, or pirating it being the right way for you, then you MUST accept the physical weaknesses in the way YOU as a company/entity have CHOSEN to generate that money be it for living or wealth.


As for plaguing your genuine customers with anti-piracy measures is a JOKE!

For fucks sake people piracy is FREEWARE!


PIRATES pour the time into making software to kill something you have created to in utter VAIN to prevent the blatant inevitable.

They are the type of people who do not seek money, and still want to give that time, and make software smarter than yours, and do, in your face, without relent.



You simply don't get it, the whole principle of piracy is to get something for NADA! If time is needed to circumvent protection measures then of course it will happen, and it will happen immediately, if the desire is there, and if it is for paying, it CERTAINLY will be for taking, the rule of the world.


Just to illustrate how you dig your grave, I go out and legitimately buy a DVD, let's say a video DVD, I am forced, literally, to view anti piracy warnings and such EVERY SINGLE TIME I view that media.


THAT is disgusting, you don't tell a thief that many times, what is more disgusting is that I can download that media in less time, with easier access to it, illegitimately, and have NOTHING shoved down my throat about piracy.


You corporate lot really fucking push it sometimes, ANY customer with knowledge of the internet and how lax it all really is, who was previously teetering on the moral fence, might fall flat on their feet on the side of downloading it for free, because of the frankly hilarious anti pirate measures that don't come with pirated media.



Does a pirate that writes complicated code to circumvent complicated copy protection listen to a piracy warning OF COURSE FUCKING NOT.


Does a downloader, by definition a pirate, listen to warnings that are NOT ON THE MEDIA THEY GET????!!!


OF COURSE NOT!!! You don't see it.


All protection does is allow a window for retail based on strong desire for product NOW before the hard working pirates make it available for nothing, and the lazy leechers just download it.


I would say if the media was not available for free it would not be circulated so much, and the hype you use to sell it to us wouldn't be so prevalent.





Retail forgive them, for they know not what they do.
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[silky666]

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[The View Askew]

And what, it's a rant, never seen one before?
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[mooserx]

I thought this was going to be a thread about eye patch wearing, wooden leg having, parrot keeping, looters and pillagers of the sea. I'm dissapointed now.
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[Finglonga]

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As for piracy rant 2/10.

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[chris-red]

Get VLC it skips all piracy warnings.

I will never buy another game from Atari (if they make anything decent I will pirate it), I bought Alone in the Dark and my RAID Drive fell over a couple of times. (New PC working out the kinks) It took about a month, several emails, lots of phone calls (Which where never answered) and I only got a responce when I threatened to turn up at there office and start making a mess (Thanks for the address Sickpup). It was brilliant it took them and hour to reply after the slight hint I would turn up in person.

Even when I got the code I didn't want to play the game anymore.
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