Finally..

[kk.]

That kind of excuse is just plain* lame. "Oh i want a CD player for my car, it doesn't come with this feature and i can't be bothered paying for it, hey theres a similar car with a CD player lets steal it".

And the rest of what i said?


I'm pretty sure they couldnt just open their application and stick in "MONEYZ RECEIVED < LESS DAN MONEYZ NEEDED = PRODUCT NO WORK" and there'll always be ways around it and making files more secure could cause more problems for clients, i think the spore game it was that had that and clients suffered?

*** are you on about? (btw i meant > not <) What i was saying was if the amount of money they invest is less than what they would receive from the extra amount of amount of people buying it


LOLOLOOOLOLOL yes its due to torrents that its popular :rolleyes:

lol, think what you think but it mustve contributed somehow

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[DaveTaylor]

This court case will go no where, probably just give them more publicity.

There has been high drama on the second day of the Pirate Bay trial. Due to serious shortcomings in the prosecution evidence, around 50% of the charges in the case are going to have to be withdrawn. The defense describes it as a ’sensation’, seeing half of the charges being dropped on the second day.

[Jordy]

So you think its benefiting the company losing thousands due to people illegaly downloading their software? LOLOL.

They're not losing money though? They're just not gaining as much as they perhaps 'should'. People who torrent it wouldn't necessarily buy it if there wasn't 'free methods' around.

[The Professor]

I'm gonna ignore the arguing because I'm too godly to sink to that level (H)

I love TPB's attitude to this, they're showing up what is a ridiculous set of laws and prosecutions that attempt to punish people for making the internet work. They'll never beat pirates anyway, its simply an arms race. The game and film industry needs to create DRM that makes it uncopyable and the pirates will carry on cracking it. Going after TPB or bittorrent or limewire or whoever they decide to prosecute isn't going to help the problem because there are a thousand and one services poised to pick up where they leave off.

And either way, I last used torrents to download a couple of linux distros so they do have their legal uses.

[Recursion]

We have a Dreamweaver CS3 license which we would not have bought if I hadn't used a downloaded copy of it a year before.

So actually, piracy gives us the motive to BUY people's products, I wouldn't have bought Lily Allen's new album on iTunes if my friend hadn't have downloaded it for me first.

[scottish]

They're not losing money though? They're just not gaining as much as they perhaps 'should'. People who torrent it wouldn't necessarily buy it if there wasn't 'free methods' around.

They are; they're losing their software which has a cost to people who pay nothing for it; so they're losing their products and their products is their source of revenue so they ain't getting the moeny they should have so.

We have a Dreamweaver CS3 license which we would not have bought if I hadn't used a downloaded copy of it a year before.

So actually, piracy gives us the motive to BUY people's products, I wouldn't have bought Lily Allen's new album on iTunes if my friend hadn't have downloaded it for me first.

Thats why trails were invented :rolleyes: Theres legal sites to listen to music.

[Recursion]

I want to put it on my iPod. I can't use a website everywhere I go.

30 days isn't enough, if it was like 3 months then fair enough but the point is we still bought a license.

[LOLROB]

This court case will go no where, probably just give them more publicity.

Very true Dave

[Ardemax]

I don't think its fair on people that buy legal things that other people can just illegally download them.

But that's my opinion.

[The Professor]

I don't think its fair on people that buy legal things that other people can just illegally download them.

But that's my opinion.

Nope, but life generally isn't fair. Not doing things because it might be unfair to someone else in the world is kinda going against nature