Grannies and Pirated Software

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Tuesday September 12, 2006 @01:02PM from the oh-dearie-me dept.

dthomas731 writes, "After reading Ed Foster's blog about how the Embroidery Software Protection Coalition (ESPC) is suing grandmothers over using pirated digitized designs, I thought you might want to call your own grandmothers and tell them they are going to be needing a lawyer. And the ESPC is very serious. On the ESPC faq page they scare these grandmothers by telling them even if they didn't know the software was pirated, that 'Unfortunately, when it comes to copyright violations, ignorance is no defense.'"

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age is no excuse by Anonymous Coward · 2006-09-12 13:15 · Score: -1, Troll

Baby boomers (now grandparents) are just as much a bunch of cheap, selfish prats as anyone else and they can play stupid as well as any thirteen-year-old. Baby boomers are the smartest, richest, most tech-savvy oldsters ever. I really don't get why people cheat authors. If it's a useful tool, obey the license. I'd love to see these grannies when someone sold one of their quilts/embroidery things and took credit for it. They'd be livid! Now that no one knows anybody else anymore, people take it as a license to cheat.