ethical question

[CTho9305]

Ok. I bought a CD-RW that comes with Roxio Easy CD Creator 4.x. After upgrading to XP, I discovered that Roxio doesn't want to make XP compatible, and doesn't have a free upgrade to Easy CD Creator 5. I paid retail, which means Roxio got money for software I cannot get any benefit from. IMHO, it would not be "wrong" to "pirate" Easy CD Creator 5 (I would hope that if I bought the same burner today it would come with 5 so it works in XP!)

What are your thoughts?

edit: I am fully aware this is illegal - I'm not asking about the law here.

 

[Vadatajs]

If you bought the burner AFTER windows XP I would see nothing unethical about it, although it's still illegal. If you bought it before windows XP and used it in your old OS, then it is wrong, and still illegal.

EDIT: Mods, feel free to edit if there is anything too bad about this post. Please warn me if it is bannable.

 

[pm]

Personally, I still think it's unethical... they sold you a product that worked correctly on the released OS. Just because they won't support a future OS release doesn't make it right to copy a newer version. They have improved the software, don't they deserve to be rewarded for their work?

Besides, MS broke Roxio support, not Roxio. WinXP is incompatible with EzCD 4.0 (which was out earlier than XP), not ExCD 4.0 incompatible with XP.

If you think that they owe you XP support, will they owe you "XP 2004" support or "XP 2006" support? EzCD 4.0 is a couple of years old. When do they get to stop supporting the old stuff and make money.

(not that I completely agree with everything I wrote, but you said it's an ethical question, so I'm taking the other side)

 

[GagBag]

i think microsoft owes us better compatibilty! asses

 

[GhettoFob]

Just use nero