This $500,000 is of course bogus , as everyone has pointed out. It is the same way the scientologists keep Dianetics on the best seller list. This is also what killed TSR. The way that this works is you push product onto distributers. They buy it up because you offer them a 100% return value. you then can claim it is mass sales of the object in question even though no customer has actually bought your product. You use this technique to artificially boost sales for the purpose of inflatting it's percieved value. In the case of dianetics it keeps the book on the best seller list so they can claim it has been thier for years , even though they are just recycling the same books over and over. This techinique can also kill you, TSR did the same thing to boost it's short term sales to make the company look profitable. It worked until the distributers were full of product and would not take any more stock. The story goes that TSR then offered to buy back this stock in the hopes of once again inflating sales. What they did not count on was the fact that their was so much stock on hand at the distrubutors. Their first return was for 19 million dollars and bankrupted them. The moral to that story is that you can only play that game for so long before it bites you unless you also control the distributors so they will rebuy the stock. They are setting a 90 day time bomb for themselves , let's see if it goes off.
So you are still piratting aren't you , you just said so . People realize that you don't own your software , the software companies do. you are not allowed to loan it, install it on another system you own, or even install it on the same system if you modify it by adding hardware in the case of OEM software. The software companies are being flat cutthroat about their business practices with the modern consumer. Read you win98 agreement, they can come take the copies you have without compinsatting you for it at any time they want. I pirate and therefore i own my software now. If they insist on charging $100 for what amounts to a bug patch then I am going to steal it. Flat and simple. With most software resellers unwilling to take back bad software, and the current fad of releasing games half completed , the only defense we have is to pirating in one of it's forms. By borrowing the CD from a friend to preview it (read your license this is considered piratting) or downloading a copy to see what the heck is going on ia m protecting myself. If the game is good , and I want to play it I need to go by the game to get the manual , unless they are so cheesy that they don't give out a manual expecting me to go pay $20 for their hint book or dummies book to learn their software. With all the school shootings going on. Babies getting killed by abusize parents wouldn't the money the courts are going to waste prosecutting a couple of kids be better spent on more police on the beat? More social workers to help those in need? Healthcare for the poor? this is a horrible waste of the PUBLIC resources by megalithic corporations trying to get bigger. To the guys winning about lossing their precouse programs to pirates , get over it. Once i've dug a ditch I don't get payed everytime water flows through it. I don't pay my plumber by the flush . You got payed to write it, maybe picked up some roalties if your were lucky. you coded in a clean enviroment that was climate controlled and had food and drink at hand. you DON'T deserve to get rich because you once touched a keyboard. get over yourselves, your not that special.
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This $500,000 is of course bogus , as everyone has pointed out. It is the same way the scientologists keep Dianetics on the best seller list. This is also what killed TSR. The way that this works is you push product onto distributers. They buy it up because you offer them a 100% return value. you then can claim it is mass sales of the object in question even though no customer has actually bought your product. You use this technique to artificially boost sales for the purpose of inflatting it's percieved value. In the case of dianetics it keeps the book on the best seller list so they can claim it has been thier for years , even though they are just recycling the same books over and over. This techinique can also kill you, TSR did the same thing to boost it's short term sales to make the company look profitable. It worked until the distributers were full of product and would not take any more stock. The story goes that TSR then offered to buy back this stock in the hopes of once again inflating sales. What they did not count on was the fact that their was so much stock on hand at the distrubutors. Their first return was for 19 million dollars and bankrupted them. The moral to that story is that you can only play that game for so long before it bites you unless you also control the distributors so they will rebuy the stock. They are setting a 90 day time bomb for themselves , let's see if it goes off.
So you are still piratting aren't you , you just said so . People realize that you don't own your software , the software companies do. you are not allowed to loan it, install it on another system you own, or even install it on the same system if you modify it by adding hardware in the case of OEM software. The software companies are being flat cutthroat about their business practices with the modern consumer. Read you win98 agreement, they can come take the copies you have without compinsatting you for it at any time they want. I pirate and therefore i own my software now. If they insist on charging $100 for what amounts to a bug patch then I am going to steal it. Flat and simple. With most software resellers unwilling to take back bad software, and the current fad of releasing games half completed , the only defense we have is to pirating in one of it's forms. By borrowing the CD from a friend to preview it (read your license this is considered piratting) or downloading a copy to see what the heck is going on ia m protecting myself. If the game is good , and I want to play it I need to go by the game to get the manual , unless they are so cheesy that they don't give out a manual expecting me to go pay $20 for their hint book or dummies book to learn their software. With all the school shootings going on. Babies getting killed by abusize parents wouldn't the money the courts are going to waste prosecutting a couple of kids be better spent on more police on the beat? More social workers to help those in need? Healthcare for the poor? this is a horrible waste of the PUBLIC resources by megalithic corporations trying to get bigger. To the guys winning about lossing their precouse programs to pirates , get over it. Once i've dug a ditch I don't get payed everytime water flows through it. I don't pay my plumber by the flush . You got payed to write it, maybe picked up some roalties if your were lucky. you coded in a clean enviroment that was climate controlled and had food and drink at hand. you DON'T deserve to get rich because you once touched a keyboard. get over yourselves, your not that special.