I'm gonna get falmed for this I know I actually paid for M$ Age of Mythology to play it on my laptop. However after about a week of having it it determined that having to schlep the CDs around was far beyond annoying so I got the NO-CD crack. I haven't redistributed it and I coughed up my 49 bucks for it. By deactivating or sending notification that I'm a thief they are infringing on my right to fair-use
I hate to bring this up but in a corporate environment its not practicle to use THE serial number that came with every copy of a piece of software. As a sysadmin turned developer I'd have to say the 112-1111111 thing works pretty well. We have licesnses for all our copies of windows but when trying to get someone's PC up and running again finding the particular serial# for PageMaker or Windows or what not that came with their system isn't all that practical
...The US Gov't anexed Hawaii to help US sugar interests, is Australia next??? don't those record execs deserve the government's help is shoreing up those waining profits?
I think the problem with most magazines is that they are so boring that people read one or two articles decide the rest isn't worth their time and put it down. If you're charging per article this doesn't make much bussiness sence since most of your content never gets read. Its the same problem the recording industry faces (sorry had to bring them up) they put out a CD with one or two good songs and then expect people to pay $15 for 2 good songs and 10 mediocre -> bad ones. Their bussiness needs to find a way to get past filler and move on to decent content
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I'm gonna get falmed for this I know I actually paid for M$ Age of Mythology to play it on my laptop. However after about a week of having it it determined that having to schlep the CDs around was far beyond annoying so I got the NO-CD crack. I haven't redistributed it and I coughed up my 49 bucks for it. By deactivating or sending notification that I'm a thief they are infringing on my right to fair-use
I hate to bring this up but in a corporate environment its not practicle to use THE serial number that came with every copy of a piece of software. As a sysadmin turned developer I'd have to say the 112-1111111 thing works pretty well. We have licesnses for all our copies of windows but when trying to get someone's PC up and running again finding the particular serial# for PageMaker or Windows or what not that came with their system isn't all that practical
...The US Gov't anexed Hawaii to help US sugar interests, is Australia next??? don't those record execs deserve the government's help is shoreing up those waining profits?
I think the problem with most magazines is that they are so boring that people read one or two articles decide the rest isn't worth their time and put it down. If you're charging per article this doesn't make much bussiness sence since most of your content never gets read. Its the same problem the recording industry faces (sorry had to bring them up) they put out a CD with one or two good songs and then expect people to pay $15 for 2 good songs and 10 mediocre -> bad ones. Their bussiness needs to find a way to get past filler and move on to decent content