Hi, In my personal experience the, "its not worth paying for attitude," is just a cover for, "I don't want to spend money for something I can steel for free." I was once in that croud of crackers during my high school/college days, and it took me a while to realise what I was doing and why I was doing it. Once I saw it for what it was I changed my mind about the entire cracking point of view. as Munawar pointed out crackers only see the side of the coin that they have to pay for something. they have no appreciation and don't care about how much money it takes to make said product, how much time spent on making said product, and have some idea everything should be handed to them for free on a silver platter. it isn't until those people get out of high school, college, whatever and enter the work force as programmers, businessmen, etc and have to worry about crackers steeling all of their hard work, time, and money. they are forced to see the other side of the coin, and it isn't very amusing any more. Actually, it is interesting to note some of the best security experts who write firewalls, antivirus programs, and work in other computer security fields are themselves former blackhat crackers with a long criminal history. The reason is that in their younger mor foolish days they see cracking and steeling as fun. When they get older they grow up a little and see all the damage, grief, and misery they and their buddies caused. They then get high paying jobs as security experts who try and secure products and networks from the new generation of crackers who are the spitting image of who they once were. Until you have seen both sides of the coin you don't know much about reality yet.
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