BTW, in regards to what John Allen posted just two posts before mine (at least at the time I’m typing this, anyways), that nonsense by Microsoft was the reason I switched to Linux.

I’ve run nothing but Linux on my computer at home for over four years now and haven’t looked back. I run Ubuntu and thoroughly enjoy it. :-)

OK, but IIRC I didn’t use flash, as my fone does not have it, therefore TPB is innocent, yarrr?

And the situation is only getting worse, with Vista only allowing you to “move” the operating system to a new machine twice, after which you will have to purchase a new license.

don’t wait, just look at any torr search and download it for free…. not completely free, you anyways gotta pay for about 8 Gigs of bandwidth…

I still remember the PS3 (NOT THE CS3) the very third version photoshop 3 was just about 50 MB (MEGA BYTES NOT GIGA BYTES) and was almost as functional as the CS3 yes the CS3, in fact the interface hadn’t changed much nor the functionality, just that things in CS3 are little convenient but at what cost…. a WHOLE LOT OF BLOATWARE that comes along with CS3 where as good old photoshop 3 was pure functionality and nothing else.

Nuance restricted trade of his company by two days because he was a LEGITIMATE customer.

“If that process doesn’t stop piracy, or even if it creates it, that shouldn’t be a problem unless you own stock in the software company!”

-What? his company owns their product and you don’t understand why he considers the “process” a problem.. spending two days talking on a phone is normal for a woman I guess? It’s a problem because he was forced through that “process” and that same “process” is ultimately redundant.

The current Anti-Piracy measures do not work, it is clearly pointless to put paying customers through this crap.

Which twisted C**T barfed out this trite, infantile slogan recommending self-censorship?

Was it the same mindless B**TARD who imposed the robot filter for ‘moderation’ of comments containing words mummy could never approve?

Now remove this filth, before I taunt you a second time!

I visit the Louvre in Paris, where a prominent sign on the door says “Photography not allowed”. However, I use my cellfone to snap ‘Mona Lisa’, the renowned national art treasure, property of France. The foto later appears on ArseBook.com, etc.

Q1: Consequently, I should be …

A) Hunted down and recycled for plant-food?

B) Criminalised for the amazing theft?

C) Sued €1billion for breaching DaVinci’s copyright?

D) Ignored.

Q2: The fact that France picks D to answer Q1 indicates that …

A) French Commies has legalised theft.

B) Pixelated .JPG =/= Mona Lisa.

C) I is stupids American retard.

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I don’t work in IT but the intrusive DRM bullsh1t prevented me from buying Bioshock and GTA IV.

Why ? Because I had bought Half Life 2, and steam didn’t work, actually my account got cancelled without reason back in the time. So I had to download a cracked copy to enjoy the product I had bought for 60€.
And steam support never answered my questions.

Needless to say, now I always download games before buying. And they have to be EXTREMELY good.

1 a: to take or appropriate without right or leave and with intent to keep or make use of wrongfully b: to take away by force or unjust means c: to take surreptitiously or without permission d: to appropriate to oneself or beyond one’s proper share.

Seems like a, c, and d easily apply. And I could make a case for “b”. People accuse the industry of biasing the argument by using the term theft, but I say it applies quite well.

And that any attempt to use another word with different connotations (sharing) is little more than propoganda from the other side.

Very Nice!

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TPB FTW
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Yeah thats exactly what going on, pretty much every person criticizing my actions have either no job or concept of one. When people are breathing down your neck (Executives) you don’t feel much like jumping through hoops when it should have worked right in the first place.

What happened was an executives computer failed and I had to build a new one. I could still uninstall PP from the old machine but it didn’t work.. hence the article above.

The point a lot of people have seemingly missed: I tried to do it right, it didn’t work and we had to pay. It was pointless because the system doesn’t stop pirates, it only aggravates customers.

Keep trying.. nobody has made any legit points yet.

It is both immoral and stupid to use tactics that impose actual costs upon honest users. It’s unsurprising that such amazing idiocy did a great deal to create a pirate community. You would have thought that someone would have figured out that insulting, annoying and inconveniancing customers was likely to end up right here.

Hell, it probably also accounts for the whole open source movement. If it’s bad on the customer end, what must it be like WORKING for such control-freaks?

Maybe if folks started invoicing for time lost due to faulty DRM software, they might figure out some way of being correct about managing their rights.

The intent is kind of irrelevant. People don’t steal cars with the INTENTION of depriving their owners of the car – but with the INTENTION of having a car for themselves.

“theft” is actually a little more complicated than you make it out to be. You could, for example, define theft as “taking something that doesn’t belong to you against the owner’s wishes”. Also, according to your definition of theft, Identity Theft isn’t “Theft” either – because Identity Theft doesn’t deprive the original person of their identity. Maybe we should call it “Identity Sharing”.

1. (Law) The act of stealing; specifically, the felonious taking and removing of personal property, with an intent to deprive the rightful owner of the same; larceny.

Without depriving the rightful owner of possession or use, it seems fallacious to claim that theft is occurring. Therefore, “theft” and “stealing” (the act of theft) are completely meaningless regarding digital copies. Just so you know that know theft was involved in giving this definition, here’s the source info:

theft. Dictionary.com. Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary. MICRA, Inc. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/theft (accessed: March 01, 2009).

I bet if you worked there and it was your pc he was working on, you’d be bitching up a storm at him when it wasn’t working right within 5 minutes. I mean after all you sound like one of those “IT should fix my problems first, in the time it takes to snap my fingers, and if they don’t I’ll complain on up the chain”.

STFU

Sad, but true. But his email was spot on from all degrees. Good job…

Wait – I thought pirates were good. Pirates don’t hurt anybody. Pirates are useful. If TorrentFreak keeps posting articles like this – implying that piracy hurts companies – then I’m not visiting this site anymore!

“No good deed goes unpunished!”

It is clear that you missed the entire point of this post. How sad…because it was a good point.

OrCad always makes DRM problems when we try to install it, and we have to contact support each and every time we do a new install, because the USB dongles and FlexLM never work properly. It’s amasing the number of different errors those two bastards can come up with in combination…

Altium has a floating license DRM system, which drops out every so often. Meaning that we can’t use our expensive software, and we waste our time on crap like this.

As a result many of our engineers have started using piratebay licenses, which seem to work quite well. The only problem is that we now have to manually keep track of the number of licenses in use, but it’s a lot less work and fustration than their idiotic DRM systems.

Why not homeland security?

what crap.

In that regard I would LOVE to skip airport security. It sucks, no fun, and no added value for honest people. But there is a reason for it — and doesn’t mean I should circumvent it.

Some companies have figured out how to do it better. But instead of wasting his breath, the customer should have tried to work with the company over the years to make it easier. But as usual customers whine when things dont go their way at that very moment. If he was truly a customer all these years — did he ever write them to say what was GOOD about the product? did he every particpate in a beta program? compliment tech support when it came through for him?

I would fire this guy.

but there are no solutions offered. ridiculously hard now to make a living in music.

and

Scansoft PaperPort Pro v11.0 keygen by TBE

I recieved a leitimate key and a link to download Office from attending a Microsoft hosted seminar.

They had no record of me in their systems and after more than 2 hours on the phone trying to recover my legitimate key, I gave up. It took me 5 minutes to find Microsoft Office on BitTorrent and would have installed the pirated copy, save for the fact I found my original pamphlet with my key.

It took me 10 minutes to find and download the software illegally, but took me over 2 hours to get nowhere when I called Microsoft directly.

This is what companies need to address to prevent piracy! Not add additional layers for the “crackers” to circumvent. That just makes it harder on us legitimate users and pushes us towards alternative methods.

The guy had the disks with what appear to have had serial numbers stickers on them. Sometime tech support really is annoying and I expect in this case was the biggest factor in Marks letter. Would not the serial numbers been helpful?

The real fault was the failure of the unlicensing to have freed up the license he needed.

I had a laptop that got bricked when after downloading a recommended upgrade from gateway.
They had me photograph it, and jump thru all these hoops, I gave up finally.
which is really what they wanted in the first place.

As a company you’re basically saying, allright then – meet us halfway and we’ll bend the rules for you. And then the guy tells you to go to hell for that.