Well, when you "steal" software or music, you've taken something, but it's not like you're depriving someone else the privilege of using it.
For me, it boils down to this: I think piracy is somewhat justified when a person would not have access to the software without pirating it. It's totally unethical when a person pirates because they do not feel like paying for the software, even though they have the means to.
"I would also like to point out the connectors. I would assume firewire was made partly as competition to usb. Thus it would be relatively easy to assume that firewire carries more current to power some lower powered devices."
Yes, this is true. LaCie, for example, ships a portable hard drive that can be powered by the Firewire bus.
All of Apple's G4 towers ship with Gigabit ethernet. They've been coming this way for the past year and a half. Unfortunately, I've never had the opportunity to use mine.. It _does_ run over standard Cat-5, though.
If I break some Australian law by saying something on my own server, should I really care? Please correct me if I'm wrong, but AFAIK they have no jurisdiction here at all. Their laws don't apply to me in any way, seeing as I've never been there, don't know anyone there, and for all I know the whole continent is make-believe.
For Microsoft to make Office work with OS X, they only had to tweak existing Office code work with Apple's Carbon APIs. For all they know, Mac OS X could be based on BeOS. This is far from any kind of port, and most likely didn't require nearly the amount of man hours that a port would.
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Well, when you "steal" software or music, you've taken something, but it's not like you're depriving someone else the privilege of using it.
For me, it boils down to this: I think piracy is somewhat justified when a person would not have access to the software without pirating it. It's totally unethical when a person pirates because they do not feel like paying for the software, even though they have the means to.
All CDs in technical books ever did were make it easier for my school to refuse to buy them back.
"I would also like to point out the connectors. I would assume firewire was made partly as competition to usb. Thus it would be relatively easy to assume that firewire carries more current to power some lower powered devices."
Yes, this is true. LaCie, for example, ships a portable hard drive that can be powered by the Firewire bus.
All of Apple's G4 towers ship with Gigabit ethernet. They've been coming this way for the past year and a half. Unfortunately, I've never had the opportunity to use mine.. It _does_ run over standard Cat-5, though.
If I break some Australian law by saying something on my own server, should I really care? Please correct me if I'm wrong, but AFAIK they have no jurisdiction here at all. Their laws don't apply to me in any way, seeing as I've never been there, don't know anyone there, and for all I know the whole continent is make-believe.
For Microsoft to make Office work with OS X, they only had to tweak existing Office code work with Apple's Carbon APIs. For all they know, Mac OS X could be based on BeOS. This is far from any kind of port, and most likely didn't require nearly the amount of man hours that a port would.
My New Hampshire business license didn't even break $50. I can only assume that's the same thing everyone here is talking about. =)
Guess everything really is bigger in Texas.