illegal software (2 Viewers)

[Rahul]

it was only a matter of time before sumone would start a thread like this.

so what kind of illegal software do ppl have.

for me, i have not paid a cent for software in abt 5-6 yrs. everything on my comp is illegal, xp pro, xp office, everything! every single program, mp3, movie is illegal, muahhaha

its bad practice, but who cares!

 

[ezzy85]

i remember buying magazines for the demo games on the floppies. that was a loooong time ago. its annoying doing SDD when they try to convince you that warez is wrong.

 

[yoshi]

Originally posted by ezzy85
i remember buying magazines for the demo games on the floppies. that was a loooong time ago. its annoying doing SDD when they try to convince you that warez is wrong.

It's wrong; illegally, and -- for nearly any society (unless you're an total anarchist or something) -- morally.

Serious stuff has happened over piracy, people are arrested, fined large amounts of money, etc. During the mp3/warez raids of last year, I know of one guy whos friend living on the same street was arrested (he was in an mp3 group) [in Blacktown I think]. There were numerous arrests in Australia and overseas, and it struck to the core of the scene; where most of you are actually getting your mp3s (after it has been filtered through file-sharing networks or dcc bots). The investigators were a bit more cunning than they have been before; police-operated (secretly) top-sites were run, and quite a number of people were entrapped this way. It hasn't deterred many people at all, but it goes to show, people are watching and government funding does go towards stopping things you may regard as flippant.

 

[Darkiris]

i have illegal stuff that is totally out of my price range

like photoshop for example as if you pay one and a half grand for that -_-

i mean i'm no professional making profit out of it, i'm but a humble school boy plodding along with no income

 

[Newbie]

i dont have much
not that i can run much on a 400 =/

 

[Huy]

yoshi's right.

operation buccaneer.

 

[:: ck ::]

i do not have any illegal software of any kind

mwahaha rahul the feds will get onto u coz of that comment ^^

j/k

 

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i seriously think i dun have any illegal software...

oh shit, wait...theres Windows XP, Office 2000...........................
err...i'll take that back

 

[Frigid]

my take is this:
- Most of us can choose Open Source and then use that stuff legally (use GIMP instead of Photoshop, Linux instead of Windows), but most of us are too n00bed or mainstream to do that....
- In terms of mp3s, I personally don't think it robs artists as such... I mean, serious, just because I have mp3s does mean I don't buy cds... and sometimes (bcoz Australia is an Asian backwater), it is IMPOSSIBLE to buy cds of Jay Chow, SHE and the like... even the ones in Chinatown are pirate cds... so what do you do?
- Pricing becomes an issue for both Programs and Music... in China, where like 90% of the media is pirate, the companies have dropped the price for original software to suit the market - why not here? I mean seriously, if they dropped every popular program (or student editions of the programs) to like $30 - 50 bucks, I'd go buy all my stuff... Who has an excuse not to pay 50 bucks for Windows, say 30 for Word, 20 for Excel, 50 for Photoshop etc?

It's not completely the end-user's fault (although legally it is) - it is hard-lined action of corporate giants like Microsoft (Windows XP) and Sony (OpenMG copy-protection) that forces these activities.

My message to those corporations is simple: People are morally degenerate once their money is concerned (the same can be said of corporations too); if you drop the prices, you kill the piracy.

 

[Newbie]

rahul is working with the feds!

get him

 

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Originally posted by Frigid

IMPOSSIBLE to buy cds of Jay Chow, SHE and the like... even the ones in Chinatown are pirate cds... so what do you do?

hey, i dun buy pirate ones...i buy the real one here in sydney...30bucks for a CD but :'(

 

[Rahul]

the feds dont have anything on me. they dont even know my name

downloading albums is another rort . its good to spread the corruption over a larger area.

 

[Chand]

we have XP installed on all three comps and Windows office 2000 and im pretty sure we didnt pay a cent for it, and for songs all u need is kazaa and the net, with fast downloads.

 

[Rahul]

only if i had broadband.....i would cause a dip in software market .

 

[yoshi]

Originally posted by Rahul
the feds dont have anything on me. they dont even know my name

Hah, that's no problem. The Australian police can get your IP address from your posts, get your ISP to trace that IP address at the time you made the post to your ISP account, and they know where you live. It's all very easy if you have the power... a few threatening legal letters does wonders, I've read

 

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Originally posted by Chand
we have XP installed on all three comps and Windows office 2000 and im pretty sure we didnt pay a cent for it, and for songs all u need is kazaa and the net, with fast downloads.

sometimes the quality of songs in kazza can be shocking

 

[Rahul]

Originally posted by yoshi
Hah, that's no problem. The Australian police can get your IP address from your posts, get your ISP to trace that IP address at the time you made the post to your ISP account, and they know where you live. It's all very easy if you have the power... a few threatening legal letters does wonders, I've read

haha...it was a joke. my nickname on Bos is my actual name....
almost everyone i know has illegal software on their computers. my sdd teacher made copies of Codewarrior, for programming, for our whole class. talk abt setting a bad example.

 

[Rahul]

Originally posted by ...
sometimes the quality of songs in kazza can be shocking

and that is a problem because...

u can always download another file. dont be a quitter, if u fail try and try again.

 

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yea, but sometimes u waited long and long to finish download and the rate is like 0.000001kb/sec...and when u listen to it afterwards, the quality is shocking, it turns u down a bit

 

[Rahul]

aaaahhh another 56k person i see, otherwise u have no reason to complain.
even with 56k, it takes at max 30mins to dl a song