What % of your software isnt pirated?

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Lifer
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Originally posted by: Reck
pirating software is so easy i dunno why companies even bother with copy protection anymore.

Because 99.9% of the asshats of the world couldn't break the copy protection they use without some hacker group doing it.
 

bharok

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Originally posted by: compnovice
My school offers software at dirt cheap rates.. $7 for Windows XP-pro, $13 for Office and the library also provides many software for free. So 100% legit here...


I am an ECE ungrad so i have MSDNAA
so technically i have legit copies of WinXP office visual studio etc
 

LS20

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windows & office bought from student store
have a few legit copies of nero (from buying optical drives) but im using a pirated version---no net thievery exacted upon them!

the rest is 90% free/shareware.. and 10% pirated
 
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If I have any pirated software installed on anything I'd be surprised, I no doubt have some copied cd's around here somewhere though.
 

AkumaX

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yeah, the poal doesn't accomodate for people who use open source (i.e. people who chose to use open office instead of p1|2at3 office xp/2003)
 
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Originally posted by: LS20
windows & office bought from student store
have a few legit copies of nero (from buying optical drives) but im using a pirated version---no net thievery exacted upon them!

the rest is 90% free/shareware.. and 10% pirated

Problem is I sometimes still prefer pirated version over the student store version. I dunno. Right now I'm running legit copies on my laptop. Especially when my roommate stole my XP cd. I told him he could hav ehte pirated version, but he took MY LEGIT version and activated it (idyot). Now I feel scared everytime I have to call MS to explain why I need to reactivate (considering I reformat like once every few months). In this case, a pirated version of windows would be easier to install...

As for games, I have a shelf full of games. Legit.
 

n yusef

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I have all legis stuff, except Photoshop, because it costs $600, doesn't work in Linux, and if I has that much money to spend on photography, I would buy more lenses for my D70. I have a lot of Open Source stuff (Ubuntu + apps) too. I don't game much anymore, so I would actually buy a <$300 Photoshop CS2 for Linux so I don't have to dual-boot.