sotware piracy
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- mrdobolina0
I do freelance with it also... sorry to dissappoint but that how it iz.
- qaddisin0
yeah i do. ikbenvanrijn. but some software i own like my macromedia products. and i don't get to buy the latest and greatest photoshop and 3d apps. too bad :(
- vena0
word, that's what i was talking about in the beginning - backbone. admitting it instead of trying to pull a ham hocked moral manipulation into making yourself feel better about doing it without having to admit it :)
- sparker0
you can write off business expenses on your taxes.
it is cost effective to purchase your shit.
:)
plus, if you ever get audited you don't get ass raped.
the chief isp in columbia was audited and had to pony up 90k per instance of illegal microsoft software.
it nearly killed their business.
and, their just a small isp. it's not like they were a multi-national corporation or anything...
- sparker0
i say, if you want to use pirated software, then crack it yourself.
if you're going to do it, don't just download the app, a crack or serial and use it...
break out that decompiler and hex editor and get to work.
:)
- mrdobolina0
sparker, I believe you are alone.
- sparker0
same ole, same ole.
:)
so anyway, i want to learn how to do cell shading in a game. i love realistic rendering...but there is something cool about well done cell shading.
:)
too bad the few games to come out with it don't live up to expectations.
- ER0
it is stealing.
i try not to.
- brandelec0
if someone gave it to me, is it stealing?
- vena0
nothing makes me smile wider than when people try to justify the wrong things they do.
if you do it, admit it's wrong and have some fucking backbone. don't play little moral games to make yourself feel better. unless you live in some dream land, nothing is free and taking something that isn't free without paying for it is wrong, end of story. if you're all bent out of shape because you can't afford that special piece of software to be like your webernet idol, tough luck. there's many alternatives from cheap to free.
- sexypixel0
if someone gave you a bike that you knew was stolen is that stealing?
- brandelec0
word
- dessalles0
i guarantee you that its in the best interests of some companies to look the other way when they see pirated versions of their software on the internet.
photoshop is the institution it is today because of piracy.
millions of people would never learn how to use photoshop without piracy, and as a result, thousands of more copies are sold when they get good at it.
- brandelec0
was it an expensive bike?
- smellvetica0
it's borrowing until you feel guilty.
- toastie0
sparker,
cel-shading is best done with Cg, but you can get fairly decent looking effects with plain on polygons.
Here's an OpenGL tutorial on cel-shading
http://nehe.gamedev.net/data/les…I wrote a little cel-shader renderer for OGRE, but since they're just now starting to incorporate Cg into the renderers, im stopping work on that and waiting to do it in Cg.
- Aliyah0
I have probably a 50 /50 ratio of purchased and warez. The warez I usually buy for a few bucks from my friends out east.
I know I should feel bad... I just don't. Rest assured though, I beg for fogiviness of my god at least once a week.
- nick0
i think software piracy is wrong
but i also think it is very hard to avoid it... kudos to those who do
- vena0
i don't think you need to always feel bad for doing something wrong, it's just when people start trying to cop out of admitting they did something wrong that i'll start calling people jackasses :)