illegal software (2 Viewers)

[Huy]

It's the case of the chicken and the egg really, as one defeat's the purpose of the other.

For example, software companies are forced to raise the price of their software because of piracy, then 'pirates' complain about their need to pirate because of such increases in prices. You've got the pirate on one hand who says that software should be reduced in terms of pricing, and then you've got the software companies who need to increase pricing in order to 'compensate' for the increased piracy.

It's complicated, but then again, that's life.
Software company: "We raise prices because of mass piracy"
Pirate: "We pirate because we can't afford expensive software"
Software company: "Well if you didn't pirate, we'd be making a slim profit on sales, and you'll be able to purchase software legally at a lower price"
Pirate: "Well, I'm still not going to purchase software at 50% RRP, because it's human nature to pirate. Why purchase, when I can save my money to purchase computer hardware"
Software company: "Sucks to be you, we'll increase prices now"
Pirate: "No, it sucks to be YOU, I'm going to pirate your software now..."
Software: "Pfft... we'll increase prices just to screw our legitimate customers, of which, you are not one of them!"

Fade to black
Stay tuned for the next episode

 

[tigerboi]

hahah staying tuned...

 

[wogboy]

Stay tuned for the next episode

Episode 2 of "Micro$oft vs 1337 crax0r pirates" soap opera:

Micro$oft: OK you damn pirates, in our new version of Windows we have product activation so you can't steal & pirate our software!

Pirate: Meh, the reset crack is our friend. (crax0rz-1, M$-0)

Micro$oft: OK pirates, just try downloading & installing SP1 and see what happens! Take that! (crax0rz-1, M$-1)

Pirate: Oh well, we'll just have to use the corporate edition I leeched off Kazaa, with that good ol' pirated FCKGW key. Ha! (crax0rz-2, M$-1)

Micro$oft: G-d dammit! Alright we'll disable the FCKGW users from upgrading to SP1. Haha! (crax0rz-2, M$-2)

Pirate: Fine! I'll just have to use that trusty old keygen I found on that 1337 w4r3z site. Key changed, now updated to SP1. So screw you too! (crax0rz-3, M$-2)

Who will win this fiery battle, M$ or the 1337 crax0rz? Stay tuned for next week's episode.

 

[Huy]

LOL you forgot the russian 401111 crack

Microsoft: We'll get you back ... SP2 +WindowsUpdate v5

 

[ezzy85]

i heard somewhere that music sales are actually benefiting in a way from pirating. apparently 80% of poeple who download music illegally end up buying the cd because they end up liking it. thats from 10 news though, so i dont know how reliable it is.

 

[Jeo]

"thats from 10 news though, so i dont know how reliable it is." Hey..... now are you dissing my favourite channel? I hope for your own sake, youre not!

 

[timace]

let me go through my list
2 different copies of win xp
win 2000 server
office xp prof
flash mx
dreamweaver mx
photoshop 4 & 7
psp 7
nero 5.5
roxio easy cd creator 5
acrobat 5
namo web editor 5

and a bunch of cracked programs like winzip and winrar

oh and my stack of cds in a warehouse in auburn filled with tens of thousands of warez cds

 

[tt_j65]

Originally posted by timace
let me go through my list
2 different copies of win xp
win 2000 server
office xp prof
flash mx
dreamweaver mx
photoshop 4 & 7
psp 7
nero 5.5
roxio easy cd creator 5
acrobat 5
namo web editor 5

and a bunch of cracked programs like winzip and winrar

oh and my stack of cds in a warehouse in auburn filled with tens of thousands of warez cds

hmm...lets see... opensource alternatives
win 2000 server - Red Hat 9.0 Server or if you are internet routing, Smoothwall
office xp prof - Openoffice
flash mx - LoL no idea
dreamweaver mx - haha no idea
photoshop 4 & 7 - GIMP
psp 7 - GIMP
nero 5.5 - several linux distributions combine with cd burning programs..
roxio easy cd creator 5
acrobat 5 - xpdf, and cutepdf for windows
namo web editor 5 - yea.. linux comes a similar program haha

 

[Comedy_Al]

You can get really carried away at times- once i downloaded about $18k worth of software in the same night.

 

[:: ck ::]

haha how about me i dl 20 gigs of ful iso programs in 4 nights.... hahaha

 

[timace]

Originally posted by tt_j65
hmm...lets see... opensource alternatives
...

screw opensource alternatives dude! i'm quite content with my loads of illegality.

 

[timace]

Originally posted by :: ryan.cck ::
haha how about me i dl 20 gigs of ful iso programs in 4 nights.... hahaha

haha... how about you give me some now? sharing is caring! don't be selfish! lol

now that i'm gonna have another 40GB of HDD space to utilise

 

[Comedy_Al]

Dl limits are a prob is all otherwise......

 

[Jeo]

Originally posted by Comedy_Al
Dl limits are a prob is all otherwise......

Wow, my hard drive has 80Gb.... and my limit is 16GB so 80/16=5...... and i dont buy a new hard drive every 5 months.

if you have the 3GB limit crap....

SUCK CRAP!!!! HAHAHAHA

 

[fatmuscle]

Originally posted by Jesh
if you have the 3GB limit crap....

SUCK CRAP!!!! HAHAHAHA

hahhaha


why am I laughing? I'm on 56....

 

[Rahul]

Originally posted by fatmuscle
why am I laughing? I'm on 56....

coz we dont have a limit muahhahaha

 

[SoCal]

Originally posted by :: ryan.cck ::
haha how about me i dl 20 gigs of ful iso programs in 4 nights.... hahaha

iso?

 

[Huy]

Originally posted by Merethrond
iso?

cd image, packaged into smaller file sets (e.g 15,000,000 byte rar files... or 14.3MB rars)

*whistles*

isos = bin/cue or other cd image file types (.iso, .ccd, and so on), but typically they are binary files with a cuesheet (table of contents). in rare cases they are .iso files which are also cd image files, that is the contents of a cd, in one file, ready to be written to cd (duplicated/burned).

 

[Rahul]

Originally posted by Huy
in rare cases they are .iso files which are also cd image files, that is the contents of a cd, in one file, ready to be written to cd (duplicated/burned).

yes, i can never seem to locate these 'rare' files

 

[Huy]

Originally posted by Rahul
yes, i can never seem to locate these 'rare' files

"you've got to be in it to ...download it?"
(you've got to be in it to win it )

it's all about the credits and leech accounts... and of course, your group ... *whistles*

*runs out the door*

not that i would know anything about it ...