Do you think warez will last in the next 50 years? *with POLL*

[Corporate Thug]

no, encryption will be very hard to break within the next 10 years

 

[TheCorm]

Originally posted by: shady06
no, encryption will be very hard to break within the next 10 years

Encryption will get better but then so will the people who break it....it will always be a bit of catch up although I reckon it will definately get harder.

 

[AgaBoogaBoo]

Originally posted by: TheCorm

Originally posted by: shady06
no, encryption will be very hard to break within the next 10 years

Encryption will get better but then so will the people who break it....it will always be a bit of catch up although I reckon it will definately get harder.

Not necessarily. Remember, people make encryption, people can destroy encryption. Sure, one may take more time than the other, but its certainly possible.

 

[paruhd0x]

Originally posted by: AgaBooga

Originally posted by: TheCorm

Originally posted by: shady06
no, encryption will be very hard to break within the next 10 years

Encryption will get better but then so will the people who break it....it will always be a bit of catch up although I reckon it will definately get harder.

Not necessarily. Remember, people make encryption, people can destroy encryption. Sure, one may take more time than the other, but its certainly possible.

Encryption in what sense? Encryption for registration of software? Remember if there is software using encryption, and in order to use the software you need to "unlock" the software. What is stopping you from reading your system's memory (which is perfectly legal since it is your computer). Remember copy/piracy protection has to work like a lock, it has to keep the pirates out, and the people who bought the software... it has to let in. Basically encryption would only be used for things to keep people out only if a company truely wants something secure.

 

[Shawn]

Originally posted by: wfbberzerker
they will always find way around paying for software.

 

[Acanthus]

if Office 2053 and Adobe Photoshop 30 are still over $300 a copy, there WILL be piracy.

I hope another compnay walks in with a superior product and charges $40 and wipes the floor with these dirtbag companies. I dont mind paying for software, i DO mind paying 10x what its worth.

 

[Mitzi]

With so much quality freeware and open source software doing the rounds its hard to see how anyone other than large businesses need commercial software.

I for one have removed 95% of my warez apps and replaced them with (better!) freely available alternatives, i.e.

ACDSee->IrfanView
CoolEdit->AudaCity (sp??)
Winzip->UltimateZip
Trillian->Miranda

etc etc

 

[arod]

Originally posted by: BatmanNate
The pirates have always been one step ahead of the opposition, and I don't see that situation changing anytime soon.

Why? Because people on the internet are smarter as a collective that any one company ever will be (including microsoft)

 

[slackerinabox]

I do wonder why companies don't all force web registration... Sure, cracks can be made but if the program made a hidden connection to upload file checksum information (to identify cracked source) as well as I.P. addresses, piracy would be seriously haulted.. OF course, there's always a way around everything.. But, still, I wonder why companies don't do that (some shareware is very sneaky in connecting to the web)

 

[Kilrsat]

Because even when I legitimately purchase a product I:

a) Don't want to give my name/information to the company

and

b) Don't want it phoning home.

Why don't I want to give my name to them? Well, thanks to the Do not call list, I don't have to listen to telemarkters anymore, but if I have done "business" with a company in the recent past then people from their organization can call me. Kind of defeats the point.

Its about having a little bit of privacy. I don't walk into Sears, buy a Craftsman wrench and have to divuldge my life's story to the company before I am "legally" allowed to use the wrench. That's just silly.

 

[slackerinabox]

Originally posted by: Kilrsat
Because even when I legitimately purchase a product I:

a) Don't want to give my name/information to the company

and

b) Don't want it phoning home.

Why don't I want to give my name to them? Well, thanks to the Do not call list, I don't have to listen to telemarkters anymore, but if I have done "business" with a company in the recent past then people from their organization can call me. Kind of defeats the point.

Its about having a little bit of privacy. I don't walk into Sears, buy a Craftsman wrench and have to divuldge my life's story to the company before I am "legally" allowed to use the wrench. That's just silly.

Hey,
I agree with you - I don't register programs that I pay for.. Too much of a hassle and I hate the SPAM.. But they COULD force it.. I wouldn't want that to happen but if they do, it'll make life tougher for pirates and owners alike..

 

[slackerinabox]

By the way, I agree with a previous poster..Software distribution will be VERY different in the near future.. Look at the plans for the Playstation 3.. You don't OWN the software, you lease it off of a server and it's streamed to you (whether they change that in the end or not is not the point)... If sony doesn't meet their ambitious goals now someone else will within 10 years.. That would make piracy VERY difficult..

 

[Regs]

There will always be ways to share. Not unless our constitution changes.

 

[Demon-Xanth]

Someone once said:

15% of the population will never steal a thing.
15% of the population will steal anything that isn't bolted down

and I add to it:
2% of the population brings a wrench set with them to steal what is bolted down.

 

[MegaloManiaK]

Originally posted by: Dr Smooth

Originally posted by: t60
Reasons why or why not?

I am not sure what form software will be in 50 years.

My thoughts exactly. Software in its modern form hasn't been around 50 years. With the technology curve increasing how can you even assume that in 50 years it will A. be in pirateable form, B. still cost money, C. be needed, D. Insert anything you want here, 50 years is a long time.


If photoshop 37 still costs 600+ bucks, and there is still media around that can be copied and distributed. Then yes, warez will still be around.

 

[MegaloManiaK]

Originally posted by: shady06
no, encryption will be very hard to break within the next 10 years

Actualy when computers evolve beyond thier current architecture encryption will be much easier to break because the processors trying to break them will be able to do more things faster.