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06 Jun 2009, 1:58 am

Piracy ftw. Here is why.
I believe the current media distribution system supports streamlined crap-factories, manufactured bands, bloatware, all kinds of stuff.
I donate to artists, individuals and companies if they do something useful, inspiring, or otherwise good. This means the people doing something right get money, and so continue making good stuff, and those that don't aren't harvesting my walled needlessly.
Now unfortunately not everything is open source, people are still trying to get my money for hype films and general failware.

Sucks to be them, they're not having it. And I keep a clear conscience, because if everyone on the planet did what I did, media would actually improve. 8)



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06 Jun 2009, 2:34 am

Asmodeus wrote:
if everyone on the planet did what I did, media would actually improve. 8)


No it wouldnt. How would a good artist feel safe from you judging them the same as you do the bad artists?

Piracy stifles creativity.


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17 Jul 2009, 11:21 am

ARRRR Matey.... I be a pirate and I enjoy my grog...now come here wench!! !!


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17 Jul 2009, 6:04 pm

How do I feel about pirates?

Captain Tractor sums it up.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHAl1tWvvPA[/youtube]

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Well I used to be a farmer, and I made a living fine.
I had a little stretch of land along the sea behind.
But times went by although I tried, the money wasn't there,
and the bankers came and took my land and told me fair is fair.
I looked for every kind of job the answer always no,
Hire you now they always laughed we just let 20 go
The government they promised me a measly a little sum
But I've got to much pride to end up just another bum,
Then I thought who gives a damn if all the jobs are gone,
I'm gonna be a pirate, on the river Saskatchewan

CHORUS
And it's a heave ho hi ho coming down the plains
Stealing wheat's and barley and all the other grains
And it's a ho hey hi hey farmers by your doors
When you see the Jolly Rodger on Regina's mighty shores

Well you think the local farmers would know that I am large
But just the other day I found an unprotected barge
I snuck up right behind them and they were none the wiser
I ram the ship and sank it and stole the fertilizer.
Bridge outside of Moose Jaw spans the mighty river
Farmers cross with so much fear there stomach are a quiver,
Cause they know that Captain Tractor's hiding in the bay
I'll jump the bridge and knock them cold and sail'em with there Hayyyyy

Repeat CHORUS

Well mounty Bob he chased me, he was always at my throat.
He followed on the shore lines cause he didn't own a boat.
But the cutbacks were coming and the mounty lost his job,
So now he's sailing with me and we call him Salty Bob.
A swinging sword and skull and bones and pleasant company,
I never pay my income tax and screw the GST, Screw it
Sailing down to Saskatoon the terror of the sea,
If you want to reach the Co-op boy you gotta get by me
HAHAR

Repeat Chorus

Well the pirate life's appealing but you don't just find it here,
I hear in North Alberta there's a band of buccaneers,
They roam the Athabasca from Smith to Fort McKay,
And your gonna lose your sets and if you have to pass away,
Well winter is a coming and a chill in the breeze,
But pirate days are over once the river starts to freeze,
But I'll be back in spring time and now I have to go
I hear there's lots of plundering down in New Mexico,

Repeat Chorus

Repeat Chorus

Repeat Chorus

When you see the Jolly Rodger on Regina's mighty shores
When you see the Jolly Rodger on Regina's mighty shores


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18 Jul 2009, 11:48 am

Well, I am all about free software, so piracy's not a real issue (ok, I did pirate Wordstar in 1985, but the statute of limitations is off...besides, it was literally pirated to death...;)

Open source has already been mentioned.

Magazines - if you do art or music, there's Mags like 3d World, Computer music, etc., which hand out full (but two versions ) back of pay software. If you're not too picky about that, you can get modelers like Hexagon (I still haven't gotten around to loading...;), C4d, Poser, various musical programs (some of which lock my system up; guess you can't have everything)

Piracy - now the problem you run into with piracy is a lot of that @#$ is infected with viruses, trojans, etc., and it's almost as much danger to you as some competing freeware or shareware. It's just not worth the hassle to me...



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18 Jul 2009, 6:58 pm

pakled wrote:
Well, I am all about free software, so piracy's not a real issue (ok, I did pirate Wordstar in 1985, but the statute of limitations is off...besides, it was literally pirated to death...;)


Generally, if you can't find a free or open source alternative for software, then you're probably playing with a niche product which doesn't deserve to be used. (MS Publisher for example - there are plenty of open source publishers but I don't think that any can read Microsoft's file format).

Do you really want to save something that you might want to retrieve later in a file format like that?


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25 Jul 2009, 1:11 am

Arrrrrr! :skull:



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25 Jul 2009, 7:57 am

gbollard wrote:
Generally, if you can't find a free or open source alternative for software, then you're probably playing with a niche product which doesn't deserve to be used.


Zune you say?

MicroSoft is making it increasingly difficult to interface with their technology. They would probably say it has to do with piracy, but surely they realize that fitting in is the key to thriving?

Its the age old aspie problem. We dont fit, so we dont thrive. Our task is to learn to interface with other people. MS seems to be heading the other way. What will be the end result?


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25 Jul 2009, 8:50 am

You know, Thats kinda funny. Microsofts success was based on compatibility and ease of use. Their trying to have a monopoly without that anti-trust issues. When I first got vista, It pissed me off to no end. At least the service packs helped, Still a little annoying though. They are even trying to push out the game pad market by having games only support the xbox 360 pad, I had to download a xbox 360 controller emulator just to get my gamepad to work, piss me off ! ! The only reason i use windows now is for games. Vista just might be the last microsoft product I buy. They better smarten up, More of this crap and they will turn too many people off ! !


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25 Jul 2009, 3:16 pm

Arrrggghhhh! Keel haul them I say! Arrrggghhhh.

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27 Jul 2009, 10:52 am

Copy Protection for Audio and Video was already broken before they started. It was broken in the 30's by the Kinescope. A Kinescope films the television program as it is being broadcast by essentially filming the picture tube of a TV and recording the sound by being hooked up to the speaker connections. The only form of copy protection for Audio and Video that would work is the Snow and the noise you get when most analog TVs are not getting a signal but then it would be unwatchable and unlistenable but it would work.


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27 Jul 2009, 11:06 am

gbollard wrote:
Generally, if you can't find a free or open source alternative for software, then you're probably playing with a niche product which doesn't deserve to be used.

Niche products are needed sometimes. My dad's an engineer, and the software he uses to do his job is only available for Windows, and only from one particular vendor. So, his employer makes everyone use Windows. There is not sufficient demand for an open source replacement to fuel development of one. If they need to, companies will stay with DOS in order to keep using a program they need.

As far as "deserving to be used"... well, those programs are used to make sure airplanes stay in the sky. I'd say they deserve to be used.


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27 Jul 2009, 7:35 pm

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As far as "deserving to be used"... well, those programs are used to make sure airplanes stay in the sky. I'd say they deserve to be used.


As usual, my generalisations get me into trouble.

You're right of course.

I guess I was meaning the "home" variety niche programs, like Microsoft Publisher, Microsoft Visio, Microsoft Project, Adobe Illustrator, Lotus Notes etc...
I'm not sure about illustrator but Notes at least is available for Mac and Linux (amongst other platforms), hence I consider it a worthy app.


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27 Jul 2009, 8:01 pm

gbollard wrote:
I guess I was meaning the "home" variety niche programs, like Microsoft Publisher, Microsoft Visio, Microsoft Project, Adobe Illustrator, Lotus Notes etc...
I'm not sure about illustrator but Notes at least is available for Mac and Linux (amongst other platforms), hence I consider it a worthy app.

For the overwhelming majority of home users, open-source is more than capable of providing all the features and programs they need/want. Whether these programs do so as well as proprietary programs is up to debate, and of course there is subjective personal preference involved in terms of what sort of user interface is desired.

I know KOffice has analogs to all the components of MS Office (including Publisher, Visio, and Project) along with several other components. I believe there are open-source replacements for all the programs you listed, but since I personally don't need/use any of them, I can't attest to whether they are satisfactory replacements or not.


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28 Jul 2009, 9:39 am

I don't mind paying for software, but I hate the reidiculous ways software companies try to protect their programs from pirating. When you could just register your software using the original CD, at least you could re-install the programs if your computer crashed. Now I have to get a new internet activation code each time. I think it's gone a little too far in that respect. By the way, I don't have a huge problem with pirating, but don't do it myself (or at leas tnot that I know, my father or boyfriend alway sinstalls my computer so who knows what they've put on it?).



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28 Jul 2009, 12:00 pm

If you feel like you should pay something for the software rather than pirate, you could get an academic license of many popular software programs. I got some products for a couple of classes I took through Academic Superstore. All you have to do is scan a copy of your current class schedule and your "approved". It depends on the school but I did a web programming course and ordered Visual Studio and Windows XP Pro for like $20. The school had some agreement with Microsoft (I can't remember the name of the program). If your not a student, simply sign up for a distance computer class at the local community college and you will still save money! :)