I completely agree 100% here. I personally think anyone engaging in such practices and admitting it on this list should have a temporary ban of 2-4 weeks, if that's possible to do since I don't know how Google groups works. Just my thoughts.
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Scott Howell Sent: Friday, April 20, 2012 5:07 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: OS X Mountain Lion 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 >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. >> For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
