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I don't mind piracy too much, as long as everyone follows these guidelines:

1. Buy Mac games, don't pirate them.  We need to boost the Mac Game industry.

2. Register shareware, don't pirate it.  Shareware authors are the ones that can't afford to be raped.

3. Never, ever, EVER pay for a Microsoft product.  Go on a pirating frenzy.

Exactly!!! Great guidelines

I'd like to add this:

4) If you make money by using a program, or rely on it for your business/profession, then you should pay for it.

I bought only one expensive app, Lightwave 3D, and it hurt.

Ouch!  That's over 7 grand, right?

unless you get the $500 educational version

Oh, well that don't hurt as much.  But it still hurts.

Who knows, he may have purchased the full version  :?:

But most of all, I believe that if more people actually purchased software legit; software companies will eventually drop prices.

There in lies the problem. Many students CANNOT "actually" purcahse the software. They would if they could but they just can't. I think on a student level software piracy is much more forgivable. Think about it. You get the program in college for free and use it and get used to it and then when you leave school you can afford it and probably will buy this indespinsible product. Like you said they say they would buy it if it was cheaper and also like you said it might be cheaper if they bought it for the legit price but it is at a point where they cannot buy it legit and still eat the next day so it is an endless cycle. Developers cannot afford to lower prices with so few actual buyers. Students cannot afford to pay current prices. Doh.

So long,
Larg0

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I don't mind piracy too much, as long as everyone follows these guidelines:

1. Buy Mac games, don't pirate them.  We need to boost the Mac Game industry.

2. Register shareware, don't pirate it.  Shareware authors are the ones that can't afford to be raped.

3. Never, ever, EVER pay for a Microsoft product.  Go on a pirating frenzy.

I kinda meant Microsoft software, not Windows software.[/i]

How bout buy the stuff you use often, thats what I do.

4) If you make money by using a program, or rely on it for your business/profession, then you should pay for it.

Yeah, Styer's suggestion is good, as is cheesy's.  I think pirating of any kind is immoral, but there are many levels of immoral .  Murder vs. stealing gum, for example.  Pirating software (and I admit I've done it myself a few times, so I am probably biased), in my opinion, doesn't dip very far into the immoral. Its wrong, but not terribly so. Pirating software then making money off of it, however, I think is totally wrong, and shouldn't be done.  Pirating software to get your "start" in an industry, then paying for it once you've earned some money withit, I have no problem with. I like to think of it as a "software loan."

So if a 10,000 Win users download Final Cut Pro, even though they can't use it, it's no problem?

I don't see any problem with that. Maybe they'd all buy new macs to use their freshly pirated software. 

I cannot believe the way some of you people justify stealing.  Who the hell are you determine what company has already made "enough" money, and you can now steal from them at will?

It's absolutely pathetic... no it's dispicable. 

If you're going to steal software then at least have the common sense to realize that it's stealing.  SoftwareCo. sells a product, and it costs the same for you, your Uncle's home business, and for Ford Motor Company.  If any one of you pirates it, you're a thief.  Just a thief.

All the freakin' Robin Hoods in this thread disappoint me.

I'm curious. A lot of folks admit that they would pirate Windows software, but would pay for it on the Mac. What if Windows users copied Mac software? There are a lot more Windows folks that don't like Macs than there are Mac folks that don't like Windows, or something.

I don't knwo any figures, but I'm guessing Apple makes more money off the computers the sell than upgrades to the OS. If that is the case then I wouldln't really have a problem with PC users pirating Mac OS because it would mean they would have to purchase Macs to run it on

Why doesn't the trademark symbol show up when I submit?

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Lately I've come across a swarm of people pirating not just music and movies...but SOFTWARE.

Back to the founding post.  I don't belive one form of "stealing" is worse than any other.  Most people download hundreds of mp3's for every software program they jack.  Ever seen those illegal servers?  The amount of mp3's being traded is astromical, but I belive it adds up to be about equal.

Althogh I belive theft is wrong I do not see the theft in piracy, I just don't.  It's very different to steal a car, than it is to steal a picture of that same car.

...not to the most richiest men on this smurfed planet.

What happened to the filters?