A matter of ethics?

[class9]

When you let your friend borrow the book you bought, You can not re-read it at the same time. When you give your friend a copy of a computer game, you can both play it at the same time, also your friend can also give the game to other friends. Just a small difference I noticed

[alittlebitnumb]

My answer to your question: http://www.antionline.com/showthread...hreadid=237349
As for the specific question regarding cracks/keygens/patches, I have to say they are ideal carriers of virii and trojans and do not like risking it. However, I do have to say that a large majority of groups do not include virii or trojans in releases, but as they are distributed around tend to get "tainted" so to speak especially around P2P networks.

Also, companies put copy protection on apps for a reason. They want you to pay for it

albn

[mathgirl32]

Okay, class9, I think I see where you're headed -- but how is "the same time" significant?

[don]

What crystallizes things in my mind is the recent wave of corporate flameouts ie: Enron,.....
This crap has been going on for years in a nudge, nudge, wink, wink enviroment. As mentioned
before technology finally empowers the little guy so what happens? Well we now have RIAA,
and the likes. Gotta love the almighty dollar shaping policy!
Not only that but they corporate giants are terrible corporate citizens as well. With great wealth comes great responsibility. Very little has been shown. So lets stick it to the guy who
is d/l'ng movies in the binaries groups! Hell I don't even go to the movies anymore! The cost
of a ticket here is $12Cdn for one ticket! Anyways enough ranting.

[AlbinoBird]

hi'

I may be new online here but, I would like to say that I don't feel it's wrong if it's from 1 of those money driven corprate giants like the music companies
but if it's from a well intended not so profit based company I think you shoulden't.

[Tedob1]

when i first started out in computing i bought nothing. every thing on my computer including the OS was pirated. If i didn't do that i could not learn it, i didn't have that kind of money. If only people with the money have the opportunity to learn to use these programs poor kids wouldn't stand a chance and they don't give anybody a break except for students and that also takes money. So i learned everything i could then asked aunt sallie mae to send me to school

Now that i've worked in computers for a few years i convince my boss that we really need this or that and the company buys it. so today i own nothing on my computer including the OS.

[mathgirl32]

Wow!! What a coincidence! I, too, had an Aunt Sallie Mae. Would you believe she sent me to school as well??

[Alcatraz]

What about paying $5 to a friend so that they will get you a pirated program? Is that any worse than getting the pirated version yourself? Personally, I don't think so. You're not paying the friend for the software, you're paying them for the *small* amount of work involved in getting it for you. However, that doesn't mean that getting a pirated version is right in the first place...

[Tedob1]

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Wow!! What a coincidence! I, too, had an Aunt Sallie Mae. Would you believe she sent me to school as well??
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shes a fine woman heart of gold

[Payton_74]

Probably the first few years or so everything that was on my computer was pirated straight up to the OS. Now for the past few years I have gotten all my software courtesy of my company I work for...straight up to the OS.

Everyone has their own reason to use pirated software, from taking a shot a corporate America to plan old can't afford it...even though I personally beleive that companies could afford to drop the prices quite a bit. Unfortunatly we are getting to a point where people that can't shell out 6 bills for software like office are getting left behind in the job market.

TO keep a long story short I think that if you can pay you can play and if you can't pay you too can also play!! Just be honest about it and don't be greedy...*ill *ates