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Is it just me...

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neonerd

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or do companies like Microsoft spend more money trying to stop software pirating, than they actually lose if they just let it go, and didn't go hunting after people, as well as printing out brochures, and making advertising campaigns such as "Be sure it's genuine". Not that I condone pirating or anything, but it just seems like they're losing money over this (not the pirates themselves), and it's not doing anything anyways.
 
Corporations will always do things they think are best even though it looks stupid to us nerds.
If they stay in bussiness than I guess they cant be doing things horribly wrong.
 
you forget that corporations are out to make money. if they could make more money "just letting it go" they would in a heartbeat.
 
I spoke with an executive of MS in a classroom setting once and they are very adamant about piracy. He was very passionate against it. They really lose a lot of money due to piracy but their numbers are inflated because it isn't pirate or buy. There are more options than that which they do not admit.
 
Originally posted by: neonerd
or do companies like Microsoft spend more money trying to stop software pirating, than they actually lose if they just let it go, and didn't go hunting after people, as well as printing out brochures, and making advertising campaigns such as "Be sure it's genuine". Not that I condone pirating or anything, but it just seems like they're losing money over this (not the pirates themselves), and it's not doing anything anyways.
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Probably correct. This is most likely the result of the legal department coming up with extremely inflated numbers for losses to piracy and then insisting that other departments take those numbers seriously.
 
piracy @ home - i dont think its wrong, and companies don't bother with one single person as long as you're the end user and not the distributer/seller of pirated software
piracy @ business - bad!
 
Companies like microsoft are smart. They relize that miniscule scare tactics will not cost them that much and will work on most people. They also understand that their are people who will stop at nothing to get the product for free and they would just be throwing money away to pursue them.
 
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