It's illegal. I've never pirated it. And it's not worth it. You can't do updates and stuff when u need to, its just retarded, just go ahead and buy it. Go ahead and pirate whatever else though (just keep that news to urself).
I don't think I have ever paid for software, and the only games I have ever paid for were Audiosurf and The Orange Box. The rest, such as OS's, Music, Games, Porn and so on, I have pirated. There have been times when I have bought the CD of a local band because they actually need the money to support themselves.
I don't have the money to buy games, so it's not like I am just downloading them for free when I could be buying them. The makers aren't loosing money from me deciding to download the game instead. Because if I wasn't able to download it, I wouldn't buy it anyway.
That doesn't make it the right thing to do though.
Even though the manufacturers are making huge profits from the sales and your little download doesnt seem to hurt them at all, it also doesn't make it right.
Wow, u better edit that though. I received an infraction for saying something similiar to ur first paragraph.
wowI don't think I have ever paid for software, and the only games I have ever paid for were Audiosurf and The Orange Box. The rest, such as OS's, Music, Games, Porn and so on, I have pirated. If possible I will usually use freeware alternatives such as open office and VLC player and so on.
i do have money to buy games and software but they ain't available like any other countryI don't have the money to buy games
lol mine too heheWarez are my friends.
I can't say that I feel sorry for you when your system crashes or you get a virus from using crappy pirated software.
It is stealing no matter how you look at it, the only difference is people can't understand the concept of stealing something non tangible. Lines of code can't be touched or processed in the sense that we humans think of stealing an actual object. Stealing a wallet or a car is a physical thing you can touch and feel, stealing lines of code in an application is something we don't parallel to such ideas.
If you can't afford it perhaps you shouldn't have it. I mean if you can't afford to own a car does that give you the right to steal one for yourself? If you can't afford to own a home, should you be able to steal and squat in one for free?
It isn't that it is non-tangible, it is that it is copyable data. If a Ferrari could just be copy and pasted to everyone in the world, no one would buy them either. Also the big businesses really aren't losing any money but do stand to gain more money from pirating. Those that pirate often are too poor/cheap to ever actually buy the software so the company doesn't actually have any lost revenue from most (most, not all) pirates. People pirate $10,000 software, software that they would never need but they want to play with it and make fun things (3DS Max is often pirated). The flipside is that it is basically free advertising for them. Even photoshop, possibly one of the most pirated pieces of software ever stands to gain because the more people that have it, the more people that want it and the more likely they will buy it. Movie pirating doesn't make much of a dent either. The majority of profits from movies come from the first few weeks in theaters and those first few weeks, often the pirated movies look too bad to watch so the pirates go to the theaters anyways.
I don't think I have ever paid for software, and the only games I have ever paid for were Audiosurf and The Orange Box. The rest, such as OS's, Music, Games, Porn and so on, I have pirated. If possible I will usually use freeware alternatives such as open office and VLC player and so on.
There have been times though when I have bought the CD of a local band because they actually need the money to support themselves.
I don't have the money to buy games, so it's not like I am just downloading them for free when I could be buying them. The makers aren't loosing money from me deciding to download the game instead. Because if I wasn't able to download it, I wouldn't buy it anyway.
Funny, I just found this on digg. Basically part of what I just said.
"Electronic Arts says that it understands how an illegally downloaded copy is not, in any way, a copy that was lost as a sale to the company. Mariam Sughayer, who is working for the corporate communications
department of EA, says that “Stepping aside from the whole issue of DRM, people need to recognize that every BitTorrent download doesn’t represent a successful copy of a game, let alone a lost sale”. Understanding this, the company is getting ready to shift its approach so that it rewards the customer rather than punishing everyone for the sins of pirates."
So just because somebody pirates a game, doesn't mean it was lost money because more than likely they would have never bought it in the first place.
http://news.softpedia.com/news/EA-Admits-Pirated-Copies-Do-Not-Equal-Lost-Sales-94516.shtml
I'd like to let everyone know, infrcations have been issued to certain posts inside this thread for people actively stating that they pirate software/music/films etc...
The thread OP asked for your general opinions oon pirating in general, there are plenty of ways you can go about that without stating that you pirate things and that you do it all the time... *cough*kesava*cough*
Whilst im here, I may as well point you all to Rule #1 of the http://www.computerforum.com/52038-forum-rules.html
If people continue, this thread will be closed.
I can't say that I feel sorry for you when your system crashes or you get a virus from using crappy pirated software.
Oh really ? You say that because you can afford it and thats cause it's available to you. I'd make a trip to the local store right now and i bet you if i go buy Encarta 2007, it's a copied DVD. See.. in some ways it's not the we shouldn't have it...it's just we don't have means to purchase legit stuff. we have those software to get the job done, though in the backend we are pirating...If you can't afford it perhaps you shouldn't have it.
It's illegal. I've never pirated it. And it's not worth it. You can't do updates and stuff when u need to, its just retarded, just go ahead and buy it. Go ahead and pirate whatever else though (just keep that news to urself).
I really don't get it. Why would people pirate windows, when there is linux for free and much better than windows?
Why create games and software for windows when linux is simply superior and the number of users for it is growing?
I understand that windows has eye candy that attracts people, but why choose and use an operating system that is so vulnerable to malware and so on??
Why Windows? What does it have that linux doesn't?
Sometimes i don't know why I am using windows and not going to linux. Maybe because there are cool games for windows, but why aren't games for linux too???
With linux getting easier and easier to use and the need of the console becoming smaller, i really don't know why people prefer windows...
And now if people would stop pirating windows, many would switch to linux because not many buy software these days, so many would get linux for free instead of windows that is not free.