I cannot believe anyone would have the gall to admit that they engaged in 
illegal download of software. I cannot just hit delete and ignore this because 
it is people like this individual who can hurt the future of beta programs. Not 
to mention it is pretty stupid to download something from a site that provides 
pirated software. You have no idea what risks you may be taking by using 
pirated software. So, shame on you on all levels and yes it does call into 
question your ethics.


On Apr 20, 2012, at 3:05 AM, Lewis Alexander wrote:

> the torrents are illegal. what basically happens is a user registering as a 
> developer either decides to create a torrent and broadcast it, or someone 
> acquires the data from the recipient and posts a torrent of it, thereby 
> violating terms and conditions of apple's developer license agreement. By 
> apple's standards, this is a public software violation and folks like me get 
> very annoyed. this causes problems where developing the software becomes more 
> problematic with bug reports that don't tally due to inexperienced users of 
> the software thinking it's going to be perfectly fine. the whole point of the 
> DEVELOPER preview is for software engineers, hardware engineers and analysts 
> to fully assess the OS, report or resolve erors through technet reports and 
> direct contact with other apple engineers, etc.
> 
> 
> lew
> 
> On 20 Apr 2012, at 08:01, Shawn Krasniuk wrote:
> 
>> I thought that was too good to be true. I knew that Mountain Lion was still 
>> in beta so I didn't know what this guy was talking about. But the question 
>> is, how could there be a torrent for it if it was still in beta? And Mike, 
>> do you realize that, number 1, it's illegal to download stuff like that, and 
>> 2, you'll run into problems with a beta version?
>> 
>> Shawn
>> 
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