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| I bet the poor teacher in Russiam is still PO'd Microsoft whacked some poor teacher in Russia $10,000 for pirated software. The poor 'sookin sin' probably makes $12,000 a year. I left my copies of software and music at the school in Russia where I help teach English. They have bought a new version of AutoCAD, Windows and ZZ Top shot to the top of the local top 10. Just some thoughts. |
wispagod
join:2001-06-28
House Springs, MO | I have this thing, that if you pirate it and use it for educational Personal use, and dont try and sell it or make $$$ off it that's what they want, so you'll learn it enough to promote it later on. |
| As I see it, unless the software is aimed specifically and solely at the "home" or "personal" markets, an individual has no real reason to pay for it. A lot of times, it's only to demo, or for rare/occasional use(such as Office, to use Word for resumes and the like).
But, if you seek to make it commercial, to make any money from the software, you should have to buy it.
For personal, non-commercial, occasional use, piracy means training. You learn how to use it, which may help out for your job and could lead you to have them purchase full licenses.
But, if it's smaller software, such as a usenet client, or winrar, or something like that, with a 15-20 dollar price tags, something you'll probably use quite frequently, then the price isn't so bad. When you can afford it, anyway.
At the very least, piracy means no one else is getting the money. It also helps to build software brand loyalty. If software isn't even being pirated, it's typically just not worth using.
And on that note, for anyone who needs a really good backup suite, go check out Acronis. It's helped me tons of times, to keep my system from flipping out, to the point I couldn't recover.  |
