Personally, I think they shouldn't bother at all if it's going to impair
what should be fair use (i.e. got os & some hardware I call a pc) AND
it's prevented theft not being reflected in lower pricing for legit buyers.
I put prevention up there along with the "lost revenue from piracy" as
industry BS. They're not happy making money off OEM sales (with no TS)
and corporate sales (paid support). They also don't focus the prevention
on the right place since corp versions DON'T require activation which is
where most of the OS & big ticket software theft in the US occurs.
Meanwhile they quivel about minor losses due to mostly college kids &
financially strapped families pirating. We are not Russia or China here,
most people will pay a "fair" price but will also expect to be able to
use it on a single PC regardless of if that's the PC that the software
started on.
Don't even get me started on the game co's who after years of bitching
have finally had the Internet become their savior only to keep methods
like copy protected CD's, need for said CD to initiate play AND actively
punishing customers for using things like disc images or even just
having such image software installed on the PC. With all this do they
lower prices? NO! Do they write & support quality software for this
hassle & premium? Not always, I just got burned again by Vivendi when
buying Tribes Vengeance on a active sale they initiated only to find
they aren't going to write patches for the issues because they sold less
that 500K copies or something & won't consider changing the policy if
enough units move later.
In other markets, it's a lost cause since those people never learned to
pay fair value for something. They're not just pirating, they PAYING for
pirated copies. Funny how a lot of the MS piracy bulletins have names &
connections from those markets that are busted for selling pirated
copies over here. I'll bet the same Chinese factories that produce legit
stuff are the same ones producing fakes. My fav here is "Spader Man"
action figure I saw all over NYC (2003) in little bodegas.
Eli Allen wrote:
From "PC Magazine" dated Nov 17, 1998 an ad for PC Connection was selling
Win98 Upg for 89.95, NT 4.0 Workstation for 259.95. If you were right
shouldn't the price be much higher now, 7 years later?
And if you look at HW, most hasn't really changed. Sound cards, modems,
NICs, power supplies.... Not much R&D goes into it other then how to
make the parts cheaper.
So if you don't like how they do piracy checks how would you go about
preventing piracy?
----- Original Message ----- From: FORC5
To: The Hardware List
Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2005 3:08 PM
Subject: Re: [H] Re: does this look legit
timeline may be off but when MB's were $500 dos was $30
I do not believe in piracy, but when one buys something it should be
theirs, not leased to the whim of who knows who. Lets see, you paid good
money but since who changed your HW too much you may now go and by more,
thank you. MS creates as much piracy as they seem to think they are
preventing IMO.
fp
At 11:37 AM 9/20/2005, Eli Allen Poked the stick with:
You can't pirate HW for one and two I'd like to see proof of your price
increases in software. Seems about the same level to me. How much was
Windows 95 when it first came out?
Eli
----- Original Message ----- From: FORC5
To: The Hardware List
Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2005 2:16 PM
Subject: Re: [H] Re: does this look legit
works for me >:-}
I just mean HW prices come down and sw prices go up, something wrong
there IMO
fp
At 10:53 AM 9/20/2005, warpmedia Poked the stick with:
Oh you mean you want an OS that's like 10% of PC price rather than half? =)
