Throughout my life I've pirated countless products.. at the same time, I've bought countless products. The tally of products I've purchased includes the very expensive Win2000 Pro, and Office 2000 Pro, because I use them, daily. I've even paid to register mIRC, regardless of the fact that you can use it forever without complaint. The only things I've ever "warezed" or cracked are products I intend to use 4 times to amuse myself one afternoon. I don't see anything wrong with this. It's a twisted logic of "I'm not going to pay for that product, it's not worth that to me. Does that mean I shouldn't get to use it? Why?"
I don't entirely know my purpose in posting right now, because I'm not going to change any minds, but I personally feel that this approach is a responsible one. Realistically, I haven't caused any company to lose money, because anything I might have pirated would have been something I would have paid for.. and, in a few cases, I've even gone out the next day to buy things that I've downloaded not so legally, rather than just delete them the second day as I normally do.
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Throughout my life I've pirated countless products.. at the same time, I've bought countless products. The tally of products I've purchased includes the very expensive Win2000 Pro, and Office 2000 Pro, because I use them, daily. I've even paid to register mIRC, regardless of the fact that you can use it forever without complaint. The only things I've ever "warezed" or cracked are products I intend to use 4 times to amuse myself one afternoon. I don't see anything wrong with this. It's a twisted logic of "I'm not going to pay for that product, it's not worth that to me. Does that mean I shouldn't get to use it? Why?"
I don't entirely know my purpose in posting right now, because I'm not going to change any minds, but I personally feel that this approach is a responsible one. Realistically, I haven't caused any company to lose money, because anything I might have pirated would have been something I would have paid for.. and, in a few cases, I've even gone out the next day to buy things that I've downloaded not so legally, rather than just delete them the second day as I normally do.