This link has been bookmarked by 3 people . It was first bookmarked on 19 Dec 2007, by brent gg.
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- Now I know where to report all these offers for Photoshop for $100 I get in emails.
- DJWcommented on Dec 19, 2007 9:01:27 AMHasn't this been done before and didn't it render but a miniscule amount in the face of the big picture. Software piracy runs rampid outside of the U.S. and yet, the big fish always seem to swim away. It's a nice token jesture but seriously, this program according to this article is suppose to run for slightly longer than a month. This is hardly going to put a blemish on piracy. I doubt any high volume pirate in the U.S or outside the U.S. is going to bat an eyelash.
- SkiMancommented on Dec 19, 2007 9:28:14 AMI don't get it! I thought we lived in a free market world where we lived in a borderless world and free trade was the gold standard. I such a world there are no nations, no political boundaries, and in my mind, no corporate boundaries either.
If you are a true capitalist then you don't worry about that tiny dribble of losses you get from shoplifting, for that's what piracy really is. If you live in a borderless society where your market is the planet, then you have to accept pretty much of a "wild west" philosophy of business.
If someone gets a good deal from a sidewalk vendor, or the internet equivalent, then more products are sold to more people.
Corporations of the world, you have to accept a few losses in the name of more economic activity and more trade.
If, however, you don't want that world, then maybe the old system where there were nations, and laws, and tariffs and corporate citizenship is more your liking.
I think you like this brave new world when you can avoid tariffs and have consumers pay your share, but you want the old style world when small buyers start nibbling at your cheese. I think you have to pick one or the other. You cannot have both! - JoeW64commented on Dec 19, 2007 10:50:37 AMHmm.. Adobe? Not sure I'd ever report piracy to them again. I find it interesting that as member of the SIIA, Adobe did not even respond to my email when I notified them about a friend who had unwittingly bought pirated software. I had a license plate#, telephone number, name, email address and IP address of the person offering the pirated software for sale, and never received a response. I did not provide them with all of the information in the email, but let them know I had it and was more than willing to share it. I sent the email to 3 different addresses at Adobe, and didn't even receive an automated response. Seems to me like Adobe is a paper member or SIIA, and is not really concerned about their software being pirated.
- Bruce Bcommented on Dec 19, 2007 11:30:06 AMOkay, everyone, we're all heading over to SkiMan's house for free stuff. I hear he's got a big screen TV. Anyone can have it. After all, it's only a small portion of what he owns. Oh yeah, there's also a new cutlery set and his kid's XBox. Since he doesn't care about the law, well we can go ahead and break the windows and write nasty things about him all over the Internet and tell his local paper he's a drug addict....
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