Lawmakers seek to seize domains in anti-piracy war

[Guest]

Oh boohoo, Mr.CEO mad cause he lost a few million $$$s so he cant purchase his new Rolls Royce, or get that new 78Ft flat screen drop down projector, or his kids new iPhone 4s with their brand new Aston Martins. Please. Really. Modern Warfare 2 was the most pirated game in 2009, but still made over 500$ million dollars in 5 days, set and broke records like crazy. Their bank account was cha-chinging like crazy.

Piracy has been around since the dawn of the computer / internet, and went further with high-speed internet etc. Come on, we see more and more companies popping up left and right with new software, new ideas etc. Microsoft knows all about Piracy, XP, Vista, 7 all hugely pirated operating systems and yet Mr.Gates is still worth of 60$ billion dollars. Take from the rich & give to the poor.

Great you take control of domainblah.com and change its nameserver records etc. what now? they go and purchase a new domain and within an hour or 2 the whole warez community is moved on to a new server under a new domain.

I wont lie, I pirate alot of stuff. If I feel the software is WORTH the money, and benefits me enough I will happily drop money on it.

 

[Wendig0]

Guest said:
Piracy has been around since the dawn of the computer / internet, and went further with high-speed internet etc....

I wont lie, I pirate alot of stuff. If I feel the software is WORTH the money, and benefits me enough I will happily drop money on it.

Fixed: Piracy has been around since the dawn of MAN, and went further with high-speed internet etc

 

[Wendig0]

Sorry for the double post here... my keyboard is seriously jacked up right now.

Guest, if you download pirated software to begin with, you obviously feel it benefits you in some way, and has enough value to you for you to have stolen it to begin with. Your point is moot. You're merely trying to rationalize your theft and anyone with half a brain can see that it isn't working. That's why software makers create trial versions of software, so you can see if it is of any value to you before you buy it. Get real dude, you aren't kidding anyone.

 

[Guest]

Well duh genius, anything someone does is generally because it benefits them in some way. It benefits me in that I don't have a 14 - 30 day limitation, I can test for months if need be before I decide if it suites me, no nag screens reminding me I am running a trial etc. Kidding? I wasn't trying to kid anyone Jesus, go work for Congress and put that whining to good use, the US Gov. loves whiners.

Some are against Piracy, others are for it, some couldn't give 2 pennies about it. Piracy to me has actually got me into other software I never even knew existed, because of this I have found (and purchased) many pieces of software that helped me. Hell 6 months ago I used a hard disk recovery tool that only recovered 100MB of data in trial mode (wtf good is that?) so I obtained the serial key and it worked flawless I was so impressed I purchased it and haven't touched it since. I purchased VIsta when it first came out (should have pirated it first, would have saved me $200 and the disappointment).

98% of the software on my machine is legal. The other 2% is either free, or not tested enough for me to purchase it.

 

[Wendig0]

It's funny you call me a whiner, when it is blatantly obvious you don't have the stones to stop hiding behind a guest account. I'm sure you will rationalize that as well.