Yeah, thanks from me too for that site. -------------------------------------------------- From: "shaun everiss" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2008 11:48 PM To: "Gamers Discussion list" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Audyssey] piracy of judgment day
> Hmm thanks for that site. > 2 bucks per album man. > At 04:18 a.m. 6/02/2008, you wrote: >>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. 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