On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 9:03 AM, Michael Hawksworth <[email protected]> wrote: > Nick > > I'm not claiming that not downloading cracked stuff would solve the problem. > I used to take great pleasure as a student gaining access to things that > technically I shouldn't have ( well they did say 'welcome' on the login page > ;) ) but most of this stuff isn't in that line; it is a mind set that says > any program aired in the US should be on a Torrent 20mins after airing, the > isn't any challenge to it other than being first so they can get bragging > rights. > > Illegal copying has had a massive impact on games/music and video (and I'll > accept some of it is good). > > Your out of copyright issue is an interesting one; it gets even more > interesting if you know the publisher is no more. It's is one of the things > that stops the Gutenberg project for working on newer books that they cant > confirm are released by a publisher.
I think we're on the same page here. Living people and their families should be justly compensated for their work. As for the original post, I have no problem at all with spoofing an address or IP so you can purchase something to get around software idiosyncrasies and the like. -- 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
