[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> if you are having those problems...may i surgest ShadowUser
> Pro v2.5 for windows...
>
> you can get it free...at ...[RANDOM CRACK SITE DELETED]...
> (10's of thousands of dollars worth of free software
> (serials for TRIALS etc)

Dude, you're really batting 1000.

ShadowUser is a commercial product that costs US$69. While affordable, it's certainly not free.

Let me explain a little bit about how life works, and I pray this will be all the education you'll need to begin a productive life:


The site you referenced is an illegal distribution point for copyright violations. The c r a c k z and ser ial z posted there violate international copyright agreements and carry stiff penalties in the US under the DMCA.

Maybe you haven't noticed, but the Rev community is filled with people who make software. Much of what these folks make is commercial, and require serial numbers that are sometimes illegally posted on Chinese (and Korean and Russian...) sites like the one you referenced in Hong Kong.

While most people who use cr ac kz and se ri alz are never likely to become customers anyway, there are those who would and the easy availability of serial numbers hurts those who earn their living by making software. Those hit the hardest are often smaller software shops of the sort who populate this list. So while freeloaders lounge at the beach on other people's time, the folks here are working late to make up the difference.

By supporting these crimes you will not make friends here.


Life works like this: you give value for value recieved. When you benefit from another's labor, if it's a gift you accept it graciously and if it's not you trade something of value in exchange for it.

When both sides act in earnest, the collective value of their world increases for the benefit of all.

But when you benefit from another's labor and give nothing back you are effectively treating that person as your personal slave. Civilized people banned slavery long ago; you would do well to join them.

I grew up in a town where cowboys would pick up Mexican immigrants and work them all day, and at the end of the day just toss them out of their truck without pay, laughing with the knowledge that the workers had no recourse. By supporting piracy you are pretty much doing the same thing to software developers; you might just as well break into ShadowStor's Utah office and steal $69 from their petty cash drawer.


If you wish to demonstrate any ethical consistency, at this point you have two options:

a) stop freeloading, pay for all the commercial software on your drive, and apologize to the authors for ever having stolen from them in the first place.

b) offer your time/products/services to the world for free, as you apparently expect from others.

It's never to late to begin a productive life.

--
 Richard Gaskin
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