[iBook] Re: Used Software/Piracy?

[Scott Warren]

What about the other side of software piracy??  Where Microsoft is now 
making software that has to "phone home" to get activated and with out 
that the $400 office suite stops working forcing all computers to have 
internet or a modem and annoying those of us who like our privacy.  
Where Symantec does not hand out free anti-virus updates anymore but 
instead charges a yearly fee?  While greed comes to mind, these changes 
came about due to those websites of tons of software (and cracked 
serial numbers) and all the other software piracy... Business using 
this software to make money and they only buy 1 license and copy it 
thru out their building.

So now we are all software lemmings, forced to register our $100 
software that does not have a price break for upgrades and needs 
patches every other week, we get charged for technical support that is 
outsourced to someone with a thick reading a script, get told that your 
version is out of date and you have to upgrade to get support, and on 
top of that the software company takes all the data they collected on 
you and $ell it...  thanks software pirates...

Also, having CDs does not mean ownership either as there are legitimate 
computer companies selling computers with out CDs and pre-bundled with 
software and a note that "you should use your burner to make some 
recovery CDs"...

> Imagine this.   In the future, it becomes possible to use 
> nanotechnology to duplicate any thing you already have.
I just toss in a $100 bill and a stack of old news papers and let the 
money tree grow.




On Jan 20, 2005, at 9:03 PM, William Carr wrote:

>
> On Jan 20, 2005, at 6:12 PM, 
> ibook-request at listserver.themacintoshguy.com wrote:
>
>> I don't think you would walk up to my car, break the window, and rip 
>> out my
>> stereo. Why would you in any way try to condone the digital 
>> equivalent?
>>
>> david
>
>
> Imagine this.   In the future, it becomes possible to use 
> nanotechnology to duplicate any thing you already have.
>
> Drop a pocketwatch into a vat of nanobots in oil.   They swarm over 
> and through the watch, memorizing it.
>
> Then take out the watch, wipe it off.   Get an ounce of pure gold, 
> some aluminum oxide, titanium, etc.
>
> Drop these raw elements into the nanobot oil.   Two days later, you've 
> got a duplicate watch, atomically identical.
>
> Congratulations, you've just violated copyright on the original 
> pocketwatch and diluted the value of all the other antique 
> pocketwatches in the world.
>
> However, you haven't actually stolen anything, have you?
>
> That's how most people think of warez.   Personally, I find it 
> karmically poisonous and deeply disturbing.
>
> But I have to admit, it's like the idea of panning for gold or 
> chopping your own wood.   People love the idea of getting something 
> for nothing.
>
> And of course it's the largest single force that keeps people buying 
> Windows PCs.
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> The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain 
> the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the 
> government - lest it come to dominate our lives and interests.
> --Patrick Henry
>
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