How does that show M$ has advantages over Linux? The only thing you can do with it is play a few more games. So what then, if you use 90% of your computing on linux, you have to pay thrugh the nose to run a crapy OS just to play a few dumb games?
Not anarchistic, practical.
But seriously, piracy is a joke. The internet is anarchy and that's the way it should be.
I have said this before, but it seems to me that even the most draconian piracy messures will be cracked or bypased. How can you truely outlaw something as effemiral as data transfer and bits and bytes?
A company now a days has to truely gain the consumers confidence and devotion if it expect's to get paid, and M$ doesn't do this so why should they get any money?
They got a monopoly, I don't like their shitty crap, but I want to use it to do this one ity bity thing, fuck them I'll d-load my own copy and live my life without the added expense or hastle.
Why pay for something crappy just cuz you don't have to? It's not stealing. What's more unethical, a company that makes crappy software and forces it on it's users by eleminating all other choices (i.e. monopoly), or a user deciding not to pay because he only needs a fraction of the usability and the monopolistic company has eleminated all other viable choices?
Buisness-consumer relationships are going to change drastically. People are going to actually WANT to support a company by purchasing their products, because that company simply will never be able to stop them from just d-loading or burning a copy.
Call it piracy, call it unethical, whatever. Fact is, if I see a rich fat cat drop a $20 bill on the sidewalk and Im starving to death, I won't think twice of weather or not I should keep the money. Same goes for this new market.
Despite what may be "wrong" or "right" legaly, the new market will be ruled by what's "wrong" or "right" naturaly.
