Something that I have done to avoid having problems with a video game system is waiting a year or so before buying it. The price is usually much lower, and if I hear that it isn't worth it then I didn't waste my money in a rush to be the first person to have the system.
That could be easily abusable. I could try to do the same thing against all the people who have sent me emails telling me that Microsoft will give me 300 dollars if I forward the message to 30 people. Yeah... easy money.
Well, hey... let's invite the RIAA over too. It will be fun. They'd love to delete all the songs that people copy... more songs are copied than software.
All around piracy is taking profits from software creators that deserve their money. Regardless of what excuse the pirate thinks of to justify what he/she does, it is still wrong.
Piracy shouldn't become an issue to law enforcement until certain big things happen. One thing would be a person selling pirated software for profit, which is clearly not fair. This might also include a banner website. I'm sure I could examples of other things if I sat here longer.
Officials should not be allowed to go wherever they want, but if somebody is being way too obvious or getting money from somebody else's work, then they deserve to be busted.
A "Big Brother" government doesn't need to become more powerful, nor does it need an excuse to.
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Something that I have done to avoid having problems with a video game system is waiting a year or so before buying it. The price is usually much lower, and if I hear that it isn't worth it then I didn't waste my money in a rush to be the first person to have the system.
That could be easily abusable. I could try to do the same thing against all the people who have sent me emails telling me that Microsoft will give me 300 dollars if I forward the message to 30 people. Yeah... easy money.
Well, hey... let's invite the RIAA over too. It will be fun. They'd love to delete all the songs that people copy... more songs are copied than software.
All around piracy is taking profits from software creators that deserve their money. Regardless of what excuse the pirate thinks of to justify what he/she does, it is still wrong.
Piracy shouldn't become an issue to law enforcement until certain big things happen. One thing would be a person selling pirated software for profit, which is clearly not fair. This might also include a banner website. I'm sure I could examples of other things if I sat here longer.
Officials should not be allowed to go wherever they want, but if somebody is being way too obvious or getting money from somebody else's work, then they deserve to be busted.
A "Big Brother" government doesn't need to become more powerful, nor does it need an excuse to.
I just wanted to have the first post because I get bored like that. Have a nice day.
Those pictures remind me of some random desert I visited when I was younger. It seems Mars should be a National Park before we even get there.