On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 8:34 AM, Michael Hawksworth <[email protected]> wrote: > SNIP > > My thought on using illegal downloads (even if you then buy the product) is > that all you are doing is showing to the people ripping stuff off is that > they have a market. If people didn't download stuff they wouldn't bother > cracking stuff. (Although I do take great pleasure in refusing to fix > computers for people who have been clobbered by a virus embedded into > cracked content.) >
Not necessarily. Sometimes the payoff for doing something is knowing that you can do it. I either pick locks or figure out how to bypass them not to steal someone's tv (because I would never do that. If I am going to risk prison it will be for eight figures and up), but to know that I can do it. Although if I were a good hacker, I have a few ideas... For copyrighted works such as books, you should pay for the content. That is how people make their living. We need to keep Ray in Scotch and good wine so he can keep dreaming this stuff up for us. But if it's something out of print, well then you get it however you can. An illegal scan vs paying $300 for an old print version is sort of legitimate... -- Nick A "You know what I wish? I wish that all the scum of the world had but a single throat, and I had my hands about it..." Rorschach, 1975 "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."- Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759 "Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them." Bill Vaughan "The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men." Plato
