Aces High Bulletin Board
General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: gofaster on September 09, 2002, 10:54:48 AM
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...if so, then you could be on your way to a lucrative career selling software and music to people who might not otherwise be able to afford it. This new software could be all the overhead you need!
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=562&ncid=738&e=8&u=/ap/20020909/ap_on_hi_te/fea_hobbies_compubug_stealing_tools
Now, I'll admit that I make my own music cds for long trips (not even U2 has put out an album that contains all the songs that I like, though they did come close with "Joshua Tree"), but this might be going a bit too far.
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uh.. uh.. no I uh.. no.. never
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Not to rationalise the theft, but people who pirate movies, games and music, also spend more on movies, games and music. Okay, I suppose it is a raltionalisation.
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we all know the warnings about $100,000 fines and jail time for copying stuff, we pass right over the warnings as we hit record or copy..but what kind of teeth do such warnings have? does anyone know FIRST PERSON if someone has been busted? I've heard of a few 'friends of friends' who say they got in trouble, but I give that the weight of urban legend.
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I worked for a company that was sorta busted (paid for license and additional users) . I think they concentrate on corporate software pirates moreso than individuals.
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Originally posted by Wlfgng
uh.. uh.. no I uh.. no.. never
I'm with Wifgng...
THAT IS ILLEGAL! I do not, and have never done, ANYTHING illegal in my life..
It's my story...and I'm sticking to it.
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New York had a crack-down a few years ago against the street vendors peddling illegal copies of movies and music (you may remember the "Seinfeld" episode where Jerry is bullied into taking a video camera into a theatre to tape the film - one of the funniest of the episodes, but I digress). It was a response to pressure from the entertainment media to crack down on that sort of piracy. The NYPD shut down a couple of rings, but there were others waiting to move in on the now-open territory so I don't know if it was particularly effective.
Microsoft is fairly hard-core about pirated software, particularly their office suite of products, but for the most part have no way of catching folks in the act. I believe most of their tips come from disgruntled employees who report the incidents to MS, who then send investigators.
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don't see why anyone would worry about a few mp3 cd's when they have an entire country to prosecute for software thief .... China!