Author: FatRakoon (79-121-141-25.xln.managedbroadband.co.uk)
Date: 12-30-2008 15:15
>> I disagree still somewhat.
>> The court doesn't rule the software as legally dead.
>> That's not what the court case would be deciding.
Well, actually while thats not the main case about it, if it was to get to court, thats exactly the arguement that will be brought up by the defence, and so thats exactly what the courts will be deciding on.
Dotn get me wrong here... While I fully and openly support piracy, I have some strong mitigating circumstances...
If I dont like it, it gets ditched but if I use it, I buy it.
I got Magic v2 on a HD I bought yonks ago. The prev owner wiped it to be fair, but I managed to rcover teh data and I somehow got Magic v2 running. I used it for weeks and then I bought Magic v4, v5 and then v6
Had I not got Magic the way Idid, would I be using Magic now?
I also got Ease v3 Desktop off the same drive... I bought Ease v4 and then later on, Jinnee... Again, I had been using TeraDesk before that.
So, Magic 4,5,6 and Ease 4 and Jinnee 2.5 all owe me only because of piracy.
I did the same with pretty much every software title I own on the Atari, CuBase, I now own Cubase 3.1, Score and Audio, but did I just go out and buy these ? No, I had hookie copies first.
Papyrus. I now own Papyrus Office but again, I only have it because I got a hookie copy first.
I can go on. ( I usually do )
But piracy has been a big thing for me, I openly support the idea, but only on the basis that if I like the software I have and I use it, then I must pay for it... A big like unenforced Shareware I suppose.
Even to this day I have a fairly massive collection of PC software... NONE of it was just bought... It was all either copied or downloaded and the stuff I liked, I bought, the stuff I didnt like, got ditched.
There is NOTHING on any of my PCs that is illegal or naughty, its all 100% btu its all aquired through piracy first.
I can go on an on ( as many will know ) but I wont.
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