Comments on: Software Piracy -

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Thu, 17 Feb 2005 01:28:40 +0000

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By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Fri, 09 Jul 2004 21:18:52 +0000

“Just try walking out of Hobby Lobby with model epoxy because you’re using it for a “non-commercial purpose”. You’ll be needing a lawyer.”

I still find it absurd that so many people make analogies between physical theft and copyright infringement.

If I steal your car, you no longer have a car. If I copy one of your CDs, you still have your CD, but now I can enjoy it also. And you likely wouldn’t care. That is the difference.

Moral issues aside, and you can argue those all you like, the two acts are not comparable in this way. Maybe public libraries should be illegal under this logic? Everyone who loans a book isn’t paying the publisher for it. Same difference.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Fri, 09 Jul 2004 07:54:56 +0000

[quote]“If you don’t take the class, just think about the guy in the cubicle, working, working, working….”

Why don’t you think of the guy making minimum wage working, working, working and breaking his back? Why should he pay $700 for Photoshop when Adobe is raking in hundreds of millions of dollars a year.
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This is exactly the point made by the author of this story. He doesn’t find it to be anything truly bad if someone is using it who couldn’t afford to buy the software anyway.

The issues behind high-dollar software is that they charge so much because they expect whoever buys it (corporations in bulk liscences, graphic designers, so forth) would be able to cover the expense easily from profits made by using that software. Windows OS’s, on the other hand, don’t cost all that much because so many keys are being bought anyway, that they only need to charge a minimum amount to get the profit they’re getting.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Fri, 09 Jul 2004 06:25:59 +0000

“If you don’t take the class, just think about the guy in the cubicle, working, working, working….”

I know that programming code is very difficult, but that doesn’t justify charging an absurd amount of dollars for software.

Should only the elite be allowed to learn how to use programs like photoshop?

Spread the wealth and share!