"Valve will not see a penny from me. Im not a 'pirate', i just dont support companies with shit policies."
I left out the first sentance where he mentions not buying the product and admittedly yours is a different scenario that may have a chance in a fight seeing as you own a copy. (EULA permitting)
I bought the product through Steam and activated it on the 1st day when I got home from work without a problem and as far as software delivery systems go it rocked IMHO. I work in the game biz for a big publisher and have been a gamer all my life and as result can appreciate both sides in this argument.
I would say it's all the hippies out there getting their panties in a wad or something but, I often get refered to as one of 'those hippies' so I guess that's not entirely the case.
"Im not a 'pirate', i just dont support companies with shit policies."
Umm dood, I'm no lawyer but, if you download cracked software, install it and play it....suprise! You ARE a pirate.
Just because you don't like their policies that doesn't make it legal to STEAL their software.
Just because I don't like Bushes policies that doesn't mean I can go out and...wait a minute wrong thread...
Doodj,
Question: Why would registering a gun at the time of purchase be construed as an idiotic law?
In this time and age with terrorist alerts abounding would it not make to register guns? We have to register cars, planes, motorcycles, snow-mobiles... why not guns?
Also, would it not just make perfect sense to do a criminal check to see if the gun purchaser had maybe held up a 7-Eleven or murdered someone before?
Ahhh, yer probably right. That would be an 'idiotic' abuse of personal rights...
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"Valve will not see a penny from me. Im not a 'pirate', i just dont support companies with shit policies."
I left out the first sentance where he mentions not buying the product and admittedly yours is a different scenario that may have a chance in a fight seeing as you own a copy. (EULA permitting)
I bought the product through Steam and activated it on the 1st day when I got home from work without a problem and as far as software delivery systems go it rocked IMHO. I work in the game biz for a big publisher and have been a gamer all my life and as result can appreciate both sides in this argument.
I would say it's all the hippies out there getting their panties in a wad or something but, I often get refered to as one of 'those hippies' so I guess that's not entirely the case.
Sucked into yet another thread...
"Im not a 'pirate', i just dont support companies with shit policies." Umm dood, I'm no lawyer but, if you download cracked software, install it and play it....suprise! You ARE a pirate. Just because you don't like their policies that doesn't make it legal to STEAL their software. Just because I don't like Bushes policies that doesn't mean I can go out and...wait a minute wrong thread...
Doodj, Question: Why would registering a gun at the time of purchase be construed as an idiotic law? In this time and age with terrorist alerts abounding would it not make to register guns? We have to register cars, planes, motorcycles, snow-mobiles ... why not guns?
Also, would it not just make perfect sense to do a criminal check to see if the gun purchaser had maybe held up a 7-Eleven or murdered someone before?
Ahhh, yer probably right. That would be an 'idiotic' abuse of personal rights...