[POLL] - What if software piracy didn't exist?

[AdamRader]

No comment =)

Okay, I would be all over Linux/Open Source.

 

[C'DaleRider]

Originally posted by: Amused

Originally posted by: FrankyJunior
Assuming everyone has something on their computers that is technically illegal (from unregistered shareware to fully illegal OSs), what would you do if it were physically impossible to get/use pirated software?

You assume too much. Nothing on any of my machines is pirated. I pay for what I use.

Same here.........I do like the justifications used for stealing software/music....."It's too expensive." or "There's no good music out there."

For the first, if you cannot afford it, don't use it. If you can really justify taking something that's beyond your economic means, then why not just apply the same philosophy to cars, boats, houses, watches, TVs, etc.?

As for the second, if there's no good music out there, why are you downloading copies of that "crappy" music?

Then there's the second jsutification usually flaunted with music...."There's only two good songs on the CD and I hate to pay for all the other junk." Well, that's the way it's ALWAYS been.....a few good songs out of 15. That's why singles were created, as were single CDs....or go buy the tracks you want. I do enjoy listening to people wht feel no wrong in "liberating" music but whine about someone "liberating" their CD player from their car, or taking some other personal property.

 

[TallBill]

everything is already legit

 

[cronos]

i would assume that the price of software will go down? if that's so then i'd be happy.

 

[cquark]

Originally posted by: C'DaleRider
Same here.........I do like the justifications used for stealing software/music....."It's too expensive." or "There's no good music out there."

For the first, if you cannot afford it, don't use it. If you can really justify taking something that's beyond your economic means, then why not just apply the same philosophy to cars, boats, houses, watches, TVs, etc.?

I do enjoy listening to people wht feel no wrong in "liberating" music but whine about someone "liberating" their CD player from their car, or taking some other personal property.

The difference is that software isn't rivalrous, i.e. if I make a copy of yours, I don't prevent you from using your copy. If you could copy cars and houses for essentially zero cost, then there would be a valid comparison between property and knowledge.

Stealing your CD player is theft; copying a CD without authorization is copyright infringements, i.e., violating a recording company's temporary monopoly rights. Both are crimes, but they're quite different crimes.