Part of the Human Condition is the need to kick back once in a while in order to be able to do your best for the rest of the day.
Right, but playing games, especially computer games isn't the type of rest you need. I'm exhausted after playing an hour of quake. Going for a walk, staring at the ocea, or a small run or bike ride is actually much more restfull than any game *I* can think of. But, hey, I still convince myself i'm taking a good break when I play quake at work, I'm just stupid. -WG
What you're saying is: Microsoft is bad + Piracy helped Microsoft gain control of the market = Pirates bad. That's not very good logic. If linux was pirated well, would it have control of the market in third world countries? maybe. maybe not.
You can't do anything to 'harm' piracy (unless you mean those cats that make money off selling pirated software, but they can go suck eggs) Open Source just steps around it. There is no point to piracy in the open source market, and I'm sure any pirate is all for open source.
I used to feel somewhat guilty for pirating software. I claimed 'i'm just a kid in high school with no money, so it's not like they would be losing anything anyways...' and so on. But now I know better, the truth is pirating is good. Pirating promotes good programming: If I pirate a piece of software thats poorly made, I won't use it. I'll trash it, and not look back. But if the software is good, I'll use it, and probably eventually buy it. They'll get your money: Piracy helped put Microsoft where it is today, especially in the world market. The reason Win98 is in control of the OS market is because EVERYONE USES IT. right? Part of the reason it's used by everybody, is because of its rampant piracy, especially internationally. Another case in point is 3D Studio MAX. I'm an animator. I went to school to learn how to animate at the Art Institute of Seattle, who teaches MAX and Softimage. I think that 99% of the reason I went to the school, was because I was able to get a pirated copy of 3d Studio in high school and really dug it. Therefore I went to a school that taught 3d Studio, where the school dumped tons of money to Kinetix, and went on to work for a company that uses 3d Studio (not primarily, but whatever). The point is they got my money, and they'll get yours. It's not about how many copies they sell in these cases, it's about POWER. If they control the market, then they'll get their money no matter how much kids are pirating their software in IRC channels. Another thing to point out is the difference between Softimage and MAX. Softimage has a really hardcore copy-protection in place. Pirating it is not fun, i've never tried getting a copy because no one i knew was able to get one to work. I think that in the end this really hurt softimage. 3D Studio is used by most game companies, because that's the software everyone knows (because they pirated it) and very few use softimage, because nobody knows it. Another case to look at is CoolEdit, the sound editing software by syntrillium. A very impressive, powerful sound editing tool. Cheaper and more powerfull then the professional software you'll find in most magazines. Syntrillium doesn't know how to market, though. I've only seen it for sale in a trade magazine once, and no ads or anything. In my opinion, those people wouldn't be in business anymore if it weren't for radium (thanks guys!) pirating all their software for them, no one would ever use it! Ok, i better quit or no one will read in regards to the size or my post. Uhm.. -Andy
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Part of the Human Condition is the need to kick back once in a while in order to be able to do your best for the rest of the day.
Right, but playing games, especially computer games isn't the type of rest you need. I'm exhausted after playing an hour of quake. Going for a walk, staring at the ocea, or a small run or bike ride is actually much more restfull than any game *I* can think of. But, hey, I still convince myself i'm taking a good break when I play quake at work, I'm just stupid. -WG
What you're saying is: Microsoft is bad + Piracy helped Microsoft gain control of the market = Pirates bad. That's not very good logic. If linux was pirated well, would it have control of the market in third world countries? maybe. maybe not.
You can't do anything to 'harm' piracy (unless you mean those cats that make money off selling pirated software, but they can go suck eggs) Open Source just steps around it. There is no point to piracy in the open source market, and I'm sure any pirate is all for open source.
I used to feel somewhat guilty for pirating software. I claimed 'i'm just a kid in high school with no money, so it's not like they would be losing anything anyways...' and so on. But now I know better, the truth is pirating is good. Pirating promotes good programming: If I pirate a piece of software thats poorly made, I won't use it. I'll trash it, and not look back. But if the software is good, I'll use it, and probably eventually buy it. They'll get your money: Piracy helped put Microsoft where it is today, especially in the world market. The reason Win98 is in control of the OS market is because EVERYONE USES IT. right? Part of the reason it's used by everybody, is because of its rampant piracy, especially internationally. Another case in point is 3D Studio MAX. I'm an animator. I went to school to learn how to animate at the Art Institute of Seattle, who teaches MAX and Softimage. I think that 99% of the reason I went to the school, was because I was able to get a pirated copy of 3d Studio in high school and really dug it. Therefore I went to a school that taught 3d Studio, where the school dumped tons of money to Kinetix, and went on to work for a company that uses 3d Studio (not primarily, but whatever). The point is they got my money, and they'll get yours. It's not about how many copies they sell in these cases, it's about POWER. If they control the market, then they'll get their money no matter how much kids are pirating their software in IRC channels. Another thing to point out is the difference between Softimage and MAX. Softimage has a really hardcore copy-protection in place. Pirating it is not fun, i've never tried getting a copy because no one i knew was able to get one to work. I think that in the end this really hurt softimage. 3D Studio is used by most game companies, because that's the software everyone knows (because they pirated it) and very few use softimage, because nobody knows it. Another case to look at is CoolEdit, the sound editing software by syntrillium. A very impressive, powerful sound editing tool. Cheaper and more powerfull then the professional software you'll find in most magazines. Syntrillium doesn't know how to market, though. I've only seen it for sale in a trade magazine once, and no ads or anything. In my opinion, those people wouldn't be in business anymore if it weren't for radium (thanks guys!) pirating all their software for them, no one would ever use it! Ok, i better quit or no one will read in regards to the size or my post. Uhm.. -Andy