<< Ok I have one question to all you who have given excuses for pirating software. Why are you ENTITLED to anything?
That seems to be the main thrust of your arguement, I want to have everything but if i can't afford it I'll just take it! I guess one day you are going to relize that the world owes you nothing! That's right kids someday you will find out that you accually have to make choices. And you may accually have to deal with the fact that you haven't earned anything. >>
The world doesn't owe anyone anything. Conversely tho, what do piraters(I guess I'll throw myself in there too since without my job, I'd be pirating too) owe the world? What obligation do we have to the world not to take it if we can. None.
<< Life is all about choice and sacrifice, having priorities and making tough choices. This means no you can't have everything all the time. Your self empowered attitude is really sad. You have accually been able to convice yourselves that you are the most important person in this world and to hell with every one else. >>
I don't see anyone claiming to be the center of the world here. LIfe is about choice and sacrifice. does this mean if I go to walmart and see a nice sweater that sells for twice as much in macy's I shouldn't buy it at walmart because it'd be worth the higher price anyways? Am I evil for not making the sacrifice and paying more? How about if I stole it, is it more evil to steal it from macy's than walmart?
<< You are the same idiots who always complain software is buggy as hell, and cost to much! There is a way to change that. Vote with your dollar! Don't buy MS products but do buy the competitors product if it's better. >>
If it's that buggy, I don't run it...no point to it. Why would anyone? Indeed, no one does, at least not until it's fixed.
<< You can call me a zealot if you want, you can cry to your parents if you like, but the fact will always remain that you are using something that DOESN'T belong to YOU! Why should MS or any other company make anything if they can't get paid for it. why spend the time and resources. >>
conversely, not all people get paid what they have rightfully earned. Teachers are historically underpaid. They put in enormous time and personal resource into enlightening their fellow people. THAT IS LIFE. Not this idealistic view you've got where everyone gets their due. I pray someday you come to realize this.
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companies are spending less and less on PC games because the return just isn't there, for every copy they sell many more are being used. Do you sneak into the theaters to watch movies and then complain that they are dirty? Where does your self inflicted power trip end. If EVERYONE followed your rational the software industry would go down faster than a three dollar whore at the site of a twenty. You claim it's OK because not every one does but enough do that it hurts the industry. You claim the software is too expensive when the price would drop if company knew that people were going to buy rather than copy their software. You say you have better ways to spend your money than to give to bill Gates yet you use his products because on a whole there really isn't anything better. >>
What power trip are you referring to? It's not like we have a pirater's day parade and march down the street sticking our noses up at people. Indeed, the only noses I see in the air are the people who belittle pirating as morally reprehensible. Heck, by your definition of power trip, we'd all starve to death. How can u justify buying that can of corn when there's a little iraqi kid who works all day for a crust of moldy bread because your support of this fat economy could be construed as oppressing him. When does this end?
<< You need broadband because dial up is just too slow, yet million of people are able to get by without an email address and live perfectly happy lives. You say you just can't justify spending $500 for a program that you hardly ever use yet when alternatives that are much cheaper are made availible you balk at the idea. >>
would you quit it with the broadband? Some people actually need broadband or at least some kind of internet access. I dare you to be a webmaster without the internet. How about doing freelance gfx without being able to confer with your client on email. This argument that people with broadband can't pirate software is nonsensical. It's exactly like me saying that I can't ever eat respectable food when I can take a host of vitamin and mineral supplements and sugar water for a fraction of the cost and use the money for software. It isn't required for our survival that we have fancy, delicious foods but I bet you won't argue we shouldn't be eating it.
<< The fact is you have some inane sense that the world owes you something, that if you can't see the direct effects of your action then you cannot be held accountable. I assume that you all wouldn't mind if someone took something you had created and started producing it and distributing it with out even giving you a second thought. THEN AGAIN, MOST OF YOU HAVE NEVER DONE ANYTHING WORTHWHILE IN YOUR LIVES(I(yoda) emphasized this). >>
Who do you think you are making a statement like that. How do you know what we've done with our lives and what's worthwhile? In fact, the only inane sense I'm getting is that you think that piraters somehow owe the world something. They don't. That's the truth of it. If someone picks your pocket, do you think the picker will give half a thought that he has some kind of moral obligation to you or the world or anything? Heck, what if he's feeding his family with that money? Do you think he's gonna say to himself, I'm a bad person for stealing? Heck no. In fact, he'd probably say you owe him something because you live better off than him and do nothing to help out people like him. That's the way things work. Is it right? Is it even true? Prolly not, but it still happens.
<< Face it all the excuses are used only to make you feel justified in your illegal activity. All they do is give you an excuse to break the law and STEAL from EVERYONE ELSE. THere is a thread on the DOJ's war on warez and the majority of people think that they shouldn't spend the money on anything as trival as warez but how many people do you know running a computer with an illegal OS? Now they would have to buy an OS Any os! so lets say here in this thread there are 10 people, these ten people have never bought or owned a licence for an OS. that is $950 of potential profit that MS lost. YOU NEED AN OS to make a computer work. Now there are MILIONS of people using pirated OS's make it HUNDREDS OF MILLION of lost revenue. Who pays that the people that PAY for the software. You are enrolled in the software welfare, i don't need to try because I am entitled to anything I want, software club. Take a look at your values for just a second, you aren't smarter for stealling just more uncerned with anyone who isn't you! >>
Suddenly, I'm reminded of the old "software prices will only go so high as the market will bear" argument. Have you thought that maybe software is priced so high that the market can't really bear it? That piracy is part of the cycle that is used to justify these high prices? How easy would it be to say that "we have to charge x more dollars because pirates cut into our revenues". It's the inverse of why you hate the justification people have to pirate software. You justify what you believe to be the reasoning behind software maker's actions, yet refuse to acknowledge the counter-point. You are under the image that we owe microsoft for all their hard work. But do you realize that the actual developers get a fractional percentage of the revenues from the sales? The majority gets funnelled to people who had nothing to do with the creation of the software. So maybe I don't feel justified in paying off these people who waste my television time wiht their commercials or the lazy manager who takes credit for the work of others. I don't know what actually goes on in there, but then neither do you.
Take whatever view you wanna take on piracy, but stop belittling others because they don't share your view.