sotware piracy
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- sparker0
you think that a "few" users pirating software doesn't matter....it isn't a 'few', it is thousands...multiply that by the price of a single software package and the company loses hundreds of thousands of dollars each year.
anyone who believes that pirating software doesn't hurt developers and companies is niave to the point of being stupid, and lacks even the most basic professional maturity.
even just taking the number of respondants in this thread who think stealing is ok, and adobe has losts thousands of dollars.
hell, if just 20 nt users pirate adobe cs, that is over 10K the company lost. and, that is less than half of a percent of pirated software use in the world.
it's stealing. it hurts companies and fellow developers/designers.
if a company loses all it's money due to things like piracy (and it has happened before...game companies, software companies, development firms...etc) then not only does the company go under, but all those developers and designers are out of work.
beside that, how is it that people here can justify stealing software but whine like children about who ripped who?
- vena0
"beside that, how is it that people here can justify stealing software but whine like children about who ripped who?"
that was beautiful :) shawn, you're my new nt favourite person.
- unknown0
paying for warez? i've never heard that one before.
- Aliyah0
I have a friend who heads down to Japan every now and then, I give a list of stuff I want, and he returns with nice clean disks of cracked software.
It costs me a couple of dollars, when I say a couple I mean 5-10
And I do not have to waste my time looking for iffy cracks on the www. It is a nice pop-up free way to steal....
- vena0
danke. i think you win for cleanliness though. :)
life is fun, though work is a bit slow... hence my semi-returned status here :) how about you?
- Peter0
The people I've talked to that are selling those discs open on the streets of Akihabara are Chinese. Speaks good Japanese though.
They sell it so openly, some even bring chairs and tables and put them out there on the sidewalk.
- Aliyah0
Ya from what I hear it is not very clandestine.
- SireDeeK0
xmas is comin your way yuupee
- Peter0
I'd like to see some "Pirated software - 10$" banners with a few of the letters mirror-flipped
- sexypixel0
I bought some warez discs in Kuala Lumpar, it was a huge stall in a market, and next to me was a police man buying software for himslef and his son, in full uniform.
But i hear they are clamping down on it in malaysia because they would like to get more software companies to set up there
- unknown0
use emule for crying out real loud or bit torrent or whateva
girl stop it
aaliyah was not goth
ok
stop it
- paulrand0
I'm pretty much legal on software-- but the fonts are hard to give up
- Aliyah0
Stop what?
- sparker0
eh. swamped with work. client work and office work. i'll trade you for a while. :) i'm sick of 14 hour days.
yea. i gave up trying to ever finish something public. although, i have something in the works that may actually see light for once. it's mainly email and secure back-end stuff on my domains.
the plan is to put together an open-source design/development lab to build a pc/console game from the ground up...open to anyone and everyone.
i have a couple of story lines to use and i've been reading up on my opengl and gtk programming. initially, i want to offer it on linux, but ports to windows and os x would be nice.
:)
it seems we've hijacked this thread.
- Peter0
"I'm pretty much legal on software-- but the fonts are hard to give up "
paulrand
(nov 24 03)uhoh, you've summoned the (hairy) beast. The Vena guy should be here any minute...
- toastie0
In Russia, where i'm originally from, they have legal stores that sell pirated disks, but they also have licensed software sold in the same stores. So you see Photoshop for like 25 cents and then you see Photoshop for $600, which mind you, is what an average russian citizen makes every 3-4 months.
I don't think it would enter any sane person's mind to spend 3 months of income on an applicatiom when they can get it virtually for free.
It's alot easier for you to say "If you can't afford it, too bad" if you are a graphic designer in a well-to-do country, for most people i know here, it's a fraction of what they make a month.
- unknown0
you know exactly what
- JazX0
I've purchased brand new fully functioning programs on the streets of Moscow for $1 US.
- jevad0
You know - every fucking copy we have at work of DW and Flash MX, along with Final Cut Pro, is dodgy.
Now, for a company that is making profits into the hundreds of thousands a year - that is just plain wrong.
And they know it.
Anything to save a buck.
Me, personally, I have no problem 'borrowing' my friends MX Studio installation disk and using a keygen - but for stuff like CuteFTP and ACDSEE- I pay for it.