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NYTimes Looks at Warez

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the warez-my-pantz dept.

Flamerule writes "The New York Times has a new article up that relates the end result of the DrinkorDie copyright infringement case (the "ringleader" and 5 other guys are in prison), and talks about warez in general. They at least tried to get a story from both software companies and denizens of the warez scene. Pretty interesting stuff, even if you haven't been following the case closely."

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  1. damn 5c|21p+ k1|)|)1ez... by Brightest+Light · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    you, sir, have just given me one of the worst headaches of my life.
    seriously, though, i cant understand how people can talk like that and not have their heads explode...

  2. Stupid software companies!!! by jayholley · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    I just do not understand software companies. They are so lame. Don't they realize that they are not losing money when people download their software, if those people wouldn't have paid anyway!! It is not a sale lost, it is userbase gained. Software companies want users, right?? So WHAT IS THEIR PROBLEM?

    I know Kensington build this cool USB 2 device kind of like in that Keanu Reeves movie Johnny Mnemonic, only sort of different. I looked on their site but it's not posted yet. I don't think it's out yet. Anyway, this device plugs into your brain and you can back up your memories because they're really just files and I guess they figured that the brain is really a lot like UFS formatted or maybe NFS+ I don't remember.

    Anyway, it's cool because you can download your brain and defragment it before a test or whatever to fix things up. So I was thinking about this and I was like, "Whoa, what if I left my brain plugged in to this and fell asleep and somebody hacked into my machine and stole a backup." At first I was like, dude, that's not right, that's my memories! That would SUCK! I thought. So I decided to play a game I downloaded of IRC and realized that since my life is pretty boring almost no one would ever PAY download my brain filez, so they're not really stealing or anything.

    So what's the deal with software companies?! GREEDY LAWYERS I think. Later.

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