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Educating Youngsters About Piracy

Posted by timothy on from the readers'-digest-style-hype dept.

Colin Winters writes: "The New York Times has an article that is a follow-up to the recent raid by the government on pirates in universities. Some professors believe that "By the time we get them, they already believe it [piracy]'s right." An interesting read. There's also an interesting bit on how business software is now 1/3 pirated, down from 1/2 in 1995. In America, it's only 24%. From the way companies like Microsoft whine about piracy, I'd assumed the figures were increasing, not decreasing."

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  1. I have to be careful with this one too... by Dead_Smiley · · Score: 5, Offtopic

    because my 10 year old doesn't understand why I can't just make a copy of Pod Racer so we can multiplayer at home.

    Especially since his Mom has warez copies of MS Office on her machine that she uses to writes her papers.

    --
    I know what the Internet is, what the hell is this Interweb business?!
  2. TO ALL YOU DUMB BROADS ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Time to fix Christmas dinner! Get your lazy arses out of bed and stop gripeing about your periods. Time to cook! Fixing your man a meal is your job and you better fix with a smile.

    This is WHAT YOUR GOING TO COOK!

    Baked Ham with pinnapple and honey glaze

    Green beans with bacon

    corn on the cob (you better put REAL butter on em or else!)

    Rolls

    AND FOR DESSERT

    APPLE PIE! FRESH BAKED FROM SCRATCH!
    IF IT'S STORE BOUGHT I'LL THROW IT ON THE FLOOR!

    Now get after it before I get mad!

    DO it NOW!

  3. NYTimes login for all by Jucius+Maximus · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    login: slashdotdotorg
    passwd: grotodtodhsals

    The password is just the login but backwards.