Pirated Software

For or Against? Why?

Against, but also against strictly enforcing such things and totally against surveillance. Although I'd like to see somesort of voluntary pirate tax which would go to companies to compensate the damage. Caught with pirate stuff without paying the tax would ofcourse mean extreme fines.

If the fuckers didn't charge so much for software it wouldn't be pirated. Adobe is outragous! If Fedora Core and Knoppix is almost free, fucking Windows should be about $10 tops. Greedy bastards deserve to be ripped off.

transferrable licences for music would vastly reduce the amount of piracy. if i bought a CD for 20 bucks, i shouldn't have to ever pay another cent for the same content. this means if my CD gets scratched or damaged, i should be able to take it into a music store and get a repalcement free of charge. because the disc is worthless, it's the content i paid for. this also means if i bought a cassette of the music, i should be able to exchange it for a CD. again, the cost differnce to produce a CD and a cassette is infintesimal, it's the conent you're paying for (CD's only cost more than cassettes because no one uses cassettes, so they can afford to drop the price, while as everyone uses CD's. considering the amount of actual plastic that goes in each, cassettes would cost more). Same goes with movies. simply because a new format comes out for the same media shouldn't mean i have to buy the new media type seperatly when i've alreay bought my licence for said media in an older format. i dont even care if they have a small duty for the exchange and recycling, it's far better than paying 20 bucks over and over again for the same content.

Things like software are differnt, but also a bit the same. the lower the price of the software, the more likely people are to actually buy it. not only that, but upgrades should cost less than half the origonal price. Even then, the cost of some of this software is outragious considering the number of patches and updates i have to download to keep the thing held together. when i buy an OS for 300 it better work near flawlessly out of the box. you dont buy medication half finished and have to take additional supplimentery pills after the fact, why should i may my hard earned money for a glitch ridden product? i would rather them sell me the software at a discounted price to begin with, and as updates come out, up the price.

Why not have piracy tax? Or sort of pirating license that you could buy? Would make things lot of easier. Ofcourse that would mean that all if not most would pirate a lot, but it wouldn't be bad anymore cause companies would get paid.

Microsoft is clearly in league with socialist statists in a desperate attempt to legally become a monopoly.

Open source all the way. 

Trying to profit off of something that can be easily copied by telling others not to copy it is a mistake.  Also very stupid. 

Programmers, etc. deserve to get paid, but they need a different business model than the traditional buy/sell exchange or even the licensing models they use now.  (FUCK that shit, telling me I don't "own" stuff that's in MY own possession.  How more communist can you get than THAT shit?)

I don't know what business model that should be, but generally I think attempting to collect money for every time a program is used or installed is 1) going to fail, 2) not worth it in the cost of privacy, I don't care how good the program is, and 3) ultimately anything that depends on data travelling over a standard TCP/IP network is circumventible.

Programmers should do their job for the same reasons musicians should, not for the money, but because they want to.

Creative Commons man, (cc) rules.

Pirate tax is fucking stupid because it tells people that they are all criminals and it encourages piracy because people would feel entitled to not pay when they are paying the tax.

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i agree. a pirate tax would be inneffective and stupid. might as well have a bank robbery tax or an auto theft tax. solutions should be aimed at affordability, and not having to rebuy material we already own because of a format shift or damage to the medium.