Valve releases HL2 with one of the most draconian protection schemes, still charges $50 AND still requires the CD to be in the drive. Alcohol 120 now wants you to activate their software per computer & charges $45 (a limited time offer) to get a second serial for say your laptop in case you want to rip while you're away from your home pc even though they have one of the most efficient practices of blacklisting stolen/shared keys.
They all gain while we loose more and more, meanwhile they're still whining that THEY are the losers. Maybe they should start looking at western countries separate from the piracy rampant eastern ones when they analyze the numbers.
W. D. wrote:
Naw, we live in Bill Gates' world. Everything he does is just
fine, and everything users do is illegal.
Of course, Micro$uck has broken just about every law on the books when it comes to ethical business practices. Can anyone remember a lawsuit that they didn't lose--or didn't settle out of court?
That's why I call Gates the "world's richest software pirate". ;^)
