Well said. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Feir" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Gamers Discussion list" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2008 5:18 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] piracy of judgment day
> It's been a while but I believe I'll step into the dirt this time around. > I'm certainly guilty of mp3 piracy in the past. I used to hate buying an > album and then discovering that out of thirteen or sixteen songs, there > was > maybe four or five that I actually enjoyed if I was very lucky. I used to > deeply resent that. I found it all too easy to rationalise grabbing a song > here or there that I actually wanted. With software, there's too much of a > stretch for me to ever make that kind of compromise with morality. If I > enjoy using a program, I'll either enjoy it enough to buy it or simply do > without it. It's that cut and dried. You're purchasing one thing that > presumeably does what you want or need it to do. There's no slippery slope > there. It's just a moral cliff to either jump off or not. Personally, I > much > prefer the higher ground. If, for some reason, I need technical support or > a > replacement key, I know I'm entitled to good customer care. > > On the music front, I've finally had the good luck to have found: > > www.mp3fiesta.com > > It sells mp3s very cheaply so that buying an album is something like two > dollars US and individual tracks are around ten cents. Downloading the > mp3s > is as easy as downloading a regular file and I don't have to worry about > them only working on one machine or anything like that. It's about as > reasonable as humanly possible and I know I'm supporting the artists. > > Any way you slice it, piracy is wrong. I'm not certain there's all that > much > to understand about why people do it. On the face of it, piracy doesn't > seem > wrong because no physical goods are being taken. I think we're all still > catching up to the new digital world we live in. We have a hard time > seeing > the physical consequences of the act and that has allowed piracy to become > as pervasive as it has particularly with music. In the accessible games > industry, we'll feel the effects of piracy far more keenly as developers > either go out of business or make their security more restrictive to the > point where it starts to deny legitimate customers the ownership rights > they > ought to have. That process has already started with these activation keys > which tie a game to a certain machine. I just had to get another code for > Pipe2 so I could have it on my new desktop. If and when I'm able to get > the > funds to upgrade Jaws and go to a Vista machine, I'll have to do that all > over again. If people keep passing around keys and cracks, I just hope > developers keep their legal customers foremost. > > Michael Feir > Creator and former editor of Audyssey Magazine > 1996-2004 > Check out my blog at: > www.blindspots.net > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Raul A. Gallegos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Gamers Discussion list" <[email protected]> > Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2008 8:35 AM > Subject: Re: [Audyssey] piracy of judgment day > > >> This is the kind of attitude which clearly shows a 2-faced mentality. On >> one hand you say you don't pirate software, then on the other hand, you >> say you pirate music. What's the difference? >> >> Amazing hypocrisy. >> >> shaun everiss said the following on 2/5/2008 3:29 AM: >>> well I am around 25 now, I try to stay as free as I can without going >>> alegal software wise. >>> I still do music though. >>> Really would run out of space if I didn't have mp3s. >> -- >> Raul A. Gallegos -- http://www.asmodean.net >> >> --- >> Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] >> If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at >> http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. >> All messages are archived and can be searched and read at >> http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the >> list, >> please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > --- > Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] > If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at > http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. > All messages are archived and can be searched and read at > http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the > list, > please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
