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Calum:
pirating is not helping anybody.

sorry but stealing software is no way to get your warm fuzzies. Go and do something useful like stopping those bastards who kill whales or log equatorial forests in brazil depriving the natives of their habitat, their country of many of its native species'and us of future oxygen to breathe.

I reckon it is a lot worse to do something and tell yourself it is okay, than to just be honest about doing something that, lets face it, does not do anybody any good.

flap:
Of course it's doing someone some good. Him. And the people for whom he in turn copies the software.

voidmain:
Not really, it makes them more dependent on the software they are copying and they aren't learning anything else. Should they get a job where they need to use software legally which do you think they would choose.  Likely it would be that which they are used to, the stuff they pirated previously.

shuiend:
i personally think that pirating is bad but i do it anyways. i used to download all sorts of windows programs that i did not have the cash to buy. no since i switched to linux i do it less often but i still do it everyonce and a while. my friend in skool is starting to use autocad 2000 whcich is a very expensive program. i donwloaded that for him only b/c he dosent have broadband to get it. I dont sell what i download either. but for music i have found my loophple but it only works for singles. i now download music videos which artise do not make money off and convert them to mp3. and burn them. i think for software piracy though that as long as there is windows it will be around. Linux if something costs money you can most likely get something that does the same thing but free

lazygamer:


Well I'll admit

1)That anti-corp stuff is true, but it's still a shallow excuse. I admit wholeheartedly im a freeloader. Will you ever see me at an anti-globlization rally? Nooooo....(Although they are likely in the right)

2)I try to be "enlightened", but either I don't take it to the level I should, or I recgonize where to draw the line. So I coulden't give a shit about the whales as long as their population stays stable, and while the rainforest is a good cause, that issue needs to be approached from a different perspective. Crying about it and tying yourself to trees won't help. I respect scientist enviromentalists like David Suzuki for example, but I despise the standard "I know it all" enviromental protester. Ironically, I come from a place where forestry r0x0rs, and enviromentalists are crucified. Although in southern BC some out of work forest industry workers(and their foremen) beat the shit out of enviromentalists at a camp well over a year ago.  

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