- Slow download is also a risk from a legit supplier, depending where you are, where the download servers are etc... - Trojans, well not from any remotely reputable site... legit items have been known to have trojans too. - patches - there are pirate bundles which include preinstalled cracks and patches
But you don't mention the potential risks with non piracy:
DRM may not let you play the game if you are without an internet connection... DRM may not let you play the game if the service is shut down... With Steam you are effectively renting the games, if the service is shut down you lose the ability to download anything and might not be able to play all of the games you already downloaded.
Piracy has given you all that convenience for many years, while also giving you no DRM so no risk the game will become unplayable when the distributor decides to stop maintaining drm servers.
The "print to pdf" function often creates very poor pdf files, a proper pdf export function in the program is a lot better... Get a relatively complex document and compare the output from the native pdf export of openoffice and printing to a pdf file.
Many of these public kiosks would be in airports, most people use airports to fly to countries other than their native one... When you're in a foreign country, data service on your cellphone via roaming becomes extremely expensive.
While you *can* get inferior fakes, this is rare with digital media, and the inferior quality versions are usually labelled as such (ie camrip etc) and generally only exist because there is no other option (ie no digital copy of the movie has been released yet).. So you could argue that they aren't really inferior at all, they are the best available at the time only to be superseded later.
I have seen fake jeans and various other fake products, they vary wildly in quality but then the originals are often not of the highest quality either. A lot of fashionable clothes are actually of very poor quality and not really intended to be used many times - most people who buy them quickly discard them once they cease being the current fashion.
It is fairly common for goods to be manufactured in china, and for the factory to continue producing "fakes" after the original production run is over, these "fakes" will generally be absolutely identical to the originals...
But this all digresses from the original point, which was about copied digital media... And most "pirate" copies of digital media are actually superior to the original (no drm) and also cost less. Under a true free market, the superior and cheaper product should win out and you'd be a fool to buy anything else.
The country maps cost extra, often quite a lot extra, and become outdated fairly quickly.. If you aren't planning on spending a lot of time in a specific country then the cost of roaming data might actually be less than buying the maps.. And if you are planning to stay somewhere a long time, you could always buy a local prepaid sim for much cheaper data access, and these will usually be available in the airport or wherever else you enter the country.
Copyright infringement generally doesn't result in inferior copies anymore... That was the old propaganda, that pirate copies were inferior to legitimately purchased copies and this was usually true in the days of analog media... Today, a digital copy could be absolutely identical to the original, or it could actually be superior (eg the DRM or other consumer-hostile features are removed).
Artists are not expected to work for free, but similarly they shouldn't be allowed to continue being paid for work they've done long ago. I personally am disgusted to see artists who haven't produced any work in years, still making huge amounts of money...
Put it this way, if i came to your house and did some plumbing work for you, would you give me a one off payment for the work and consider it settled, or would you continue paying me for the plumbing while i sat around taking drugs and rolling around drunk in a huge mansion you were paying for?
The legitimate producers could afford to price match or even undercut the copied works due to economies of scale...
Faced with 2 identical products for the same price, people will always choose the more reputable source...
But the fact is, dvdorderonline has a highly profitable business, because of the price fixing cartels in the west they are able to take unrealistically high margins on their products while still undercutting the competition and offering a superior product (no drm, no unskippable junk etc)... If faced with stiff competition, their margins would be razor thin like virtually every other line of business.
So the chinese have saved themselves $3.5 billion, good for them... If copyright was enforced then 99% of those chinese people would simply never have had any of this stuff at all. They would be using locally chinese produced media, or freely available media instead. Most of these people simply couldn't afford to pay what US media companies demand.
It does show where the US governments priorities lie tho, they are willing to lean on the chinese over copyrights but couldn't care less about human rights or the environment.
I stick to the US layout, despite not living in the US... It seems to be the default for pretty much everything so it saves a fair bit of hassle, and you can generally touch type just fine if you set a non-us keyboard to use the us layout.
Use chromium instead of chrome, anything unwanted like data mining you can hack out of the source...
I don't have the google updater because i installed chromium on linux using the package manager and the updater would be totally redundant in this situation.
The google maps satellite view is a few years old, quite often the satellite view will agree with the current map but disagree with your proposed changes.
Dont worry, that oncoming traffic will soon be going in the correct direction once enough people are using automatically navigated cars, and it will only take a few large vehicles to clear those barricades out of the way.
The paper maps will have been made by the same people, and therefore suffer from the same inaccuracies... Only they are likely to be older, are harder to update, and harder to use while driving unless you have someone navigating for you.
We get a lot of problems like that here, people driving trucks but using a GPS system designed for a car... They get stuck down narrow roads, or under low bridges etc.
I have quite a few situations like that around here too, businesses with icons on google maps are often quite some distance away from where they should be.
Get a diving suit and a pair of wire cutters... Dive down to an underwater cable, cut it and splice yourself into the middle of it! High bandwidth internet access at sea.
SQL server runs as SYSTEM by default (and even lets dba users execute shell commands), IIS has improved in recent versions largely due to having been so heavily attacked previously.
Although windows can run services under limited accounts, it is far less common to do so... And i believe more difficult because you have to store a password for the user rather than just being able to setuid() on unix... So some unix services will start as root, and then drop privileges later.
Many applications such as Oracle, Apache, Tomcat etc typically run as SYSTEM on windows, and as their own users on unix.
There's an important distinction to be made, between bugs (eg a buffer overflow etc) which can be corrected with a relatively simple patch, and design flaws which may require serious changes breaking compatibility...
And indeed there are people who make a lot of money repairing "bricked" devices for people, or buying "bricked" devices from people, fixing them and reselling them.
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- Slow download is also a risk from a legit supplier, depending where you are, where the download servers are etc...
- Trojans, well not from any remotely reputable site... legit items have been known to have trojans too.
- patches - there are pirate bundles which include preinstalled cracks and patches
But you don't mention the potential risks with non piracy:
DRM may not let you play the game if you are without an internet connection...
DRM may not let you play the game if the service is shut down...
With Steam you are effectively renting the games, if the service is shut down you lose the ability to download anything and might not be able to play all of the games you already downloaded.
Piracy has given you all that convenience for many years, while also giving you no DRM so no risk the game will become unplayable when the distributor decides to stop maintaining drm servers.
The "print to pdf" function often creates very poor pdf files, a proper pdf export function in the program is a lot better...
Get a relatively complex document and compare the output from the native pdf export of openoffice and printing to a pdf file.
Many of these public kiosks would be in airports, most people use airports to fly to countries other than their native one...
When you're in a foreign country, data service on your cellphone via roaming becomes extremely expensive.
While you *can* get inferior fakes, this is rare with digital media, and the inferior quality versions are usually labelled as such (ie camrip etc) and generally only exist because there is no other option (ie no digital copy of the movie has been released yet)..
So you could argue that they aren't really inferior at all, they are the best available at the time only to be superseded later.
I have seen fake jeans and various other fake products, they vary wildly in quality but then the originals are often not of the highest quality either. A lot of fashionable clothes are actually of very poor quality and not really intended to be used many times - most people who buy them quickly discard them once they cease being the current fashion.
It is fairly common for goods to be manufactured in china, and for the factory to continue producing "fakes" after the original production run is over, these "fakes" will generally be absolutely identical to the originals...
But this all digresses from the original point, which was about copied digital media... And most "pirate" copies of digital media are actually superior to the original (no drm) and also cost less. Under a true free market, the superior and cheaper product should win out and you'd be a fool to buy anything else.
The country maps cost extra, often quite a lot extra, and become outdated fairly quickly.. If you aren't planning on spending a lot of time in a specific country then the cost of roaming data might actually be less than buying the maps..
And if you are planning to stay somewhere a long time, you could always buy a local prepaid sim for much cheaper data access, and these will usually be available in the airport or wherever else you enter the country.
Take the simcard out and put it in a different handset..
Apple tried that too, but it seems their employees weren't able to keep their iphones for long enough without losing them...
Copyright infringement generally doesn't result in inferior copies anymore... That was the old propaganda, that pirate copies were inferior to legitimately purchased copies and this was usually true in the days of analog media... Today, a digital copy could be absolutely identical to the original, or it could actually be superior (eg the DRM or other consumer-hostile features are removed).
Artists are not expected to work for free, but similarly they shouldn't be allowed to continue being paid for work they've done long ago.
I personally am disgusted to see artists who haven't produced any work in years, still making huge amounts of money...
Put it this way, if i came to your house and did some plumbing work for you, would you give me a one off payment for the work and consider it settled, or would you continue paying me for the plumbing while i sat around taking drugs and rolling around drunk in a huge mansion you were paying for?
Noone deserves to just get an easy ride...
The legitimate producers could afford to price match or even undercut the copied works due to economies of scale...
Faced with 2 identical products for the same price, people will always choose the more reputable source...
But the fact is, dvdorderonline has a highly profitable business, because of the price fixing cartels in the west they are able to take unrealistically high margins on their products while still undercutting the competition and offering a superior product (no drm, no unskippable junk etc)... If faced with stiff competition, their margins would be razor thin like virtually every other line of business.
So the chinese have saved themselves $3.5 billion, good for them...
If copyright was enforced then 99% of those chinese people would simply never have had any of this stuff at all. They would be using locally chinese produced media, or freely available media instead. Most of these people simply couldn't afford to pay what US media companies demand.
It does show where the US governments priorities lie tho, they are willing to lean on the chinese over copyrights but couldn't care less about human rights or the environment.
I stick to the US layout, despite not living in the US...
It seems to be the default for pretty much everything so it saves a fair bit of hassle, and you can generally touch type just fine if you set a non-us keyboard to use the us layout.
Use chromium instead of chrome, anything unwanted like data mining you can hack out of the source...
I don't have the google updater because i installed chromium on linux using the package manager and the updater would be totally redundant in this situation.
The google maps satellite view is a few years old, quite often the satellite view will agree with the current map but disagree with your proposed changes.
Dont worry, that oncoming traffic will soon be going in the correct direction once enough people are using automatically navigated cars, and it will only take a few large vehicles to clear those barricades out of the way.
The paper maps will have been made by the same people, and therefore suffer from the same inaccuracies...
Only they are likely to be older, are harder to update, and harder to use while driving unless you have someone navigating for you.
We get a lot of problems like that here, people driving trucks but using a GPS system designed for a car... They get stuck down narrow roads, or under low bridges etc.
I have quite a few situations like that around here too, businesses with icons on google maps are often quite some distance away from where they should be.
If this was the default there would be serious privacy concerns...
And if this was not the default, very few people would use it...
Get a diving suit and a pair of wire cutters...
Dive down to an underwater cable, cut it and splice yourself into the middle of it! High bandwidth internet access at sea.
SQL server runs as SYSTEM by default (and even lets dba users execute shell commands), IIS has improved in recent versions largely due to having been so heavily attacked previously.
Although windows can run services under limited accounts, it is far less common to do so... And i believe more difficult because you have to store a password for the user rather than just being able to setuid() on unix... So some unix services will start as root, and then drop privileges later.
Many applications such as Oracle, Apache, Tomcat etc typically run as SYSTEM on windows, and as their own users on unix.
There's an important distinction to be made, between bugs (eg a buffer overflow etc) which can be corrected with a relatively simple patch, and design flaws which may require serious changes breaking compatibility...
And indeed there are people who make a lot of money repairing "bricked" devices for people, or buying "bricked" devices from people, fixing them and reselling them.