software "piracy" has been around for ever. I remember copying punch
cards. It took forever and if you made one mistake hours of work was
down the tubes. I had an apple II that we used "Disk Pirate" 1-11 to
copy games, peach tree accounting software, etc. In the time it took
to load the 5 1/4" floppy you could make a copy. From that you could
make as many copies as you deemed fit. I must of made $100 from Dig
Dug alone.
Then came cad or ? with a software "lock" it was a piece of hardware
that connected to a serial port on your computer. Without the lock the
software was dead. You were free to use the software on any computer
but you had to have the lock. More computers simply buy more locks. It
has been so long I forget the details but it was effective. If you
tried to reverse engineer the "lock" you rendered it dead. No one
wanted to buy the locks so it went with the dodo...
In this day and age piracy is simply a game that is quite profitable.
We used to copy and share over bbs' or even mail each other copies.
Shareware was the cats ass. Now I have to buy a new OS every frickin
year. New version of Office, Photoshop, etc. Frick that! I love Win
98SE, it still serves my purpose. I love win 2k pro, it serves my
purpose. Vista, Win 7, MAc OSes... Crap, pure crap. Photoshop 5 does
all I need. Office 97 works great and has a nifty flight sim in it.
Win 7 is still frickin Dos... I still have my copies of Dos versions
3- 6.2 and it serves its purpose.
Do I use dvd decrypter? Yes. Dvd shrink? Hell yes. Do I sell the
copies or profit from it? Whenever I can. Boldly doing it over the
internet is just stupid and anyone who does it deserves the full penalty.
bma
----- Original Message -----
*From:* Jerry dePriest <mailto:jerryde@xxxxxx>
*To:* full-disclosure@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
<mailto:full-disclosure@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
*Sent:* Friday, January 27, 2012 2:24 AM
*Subject:* [Full-disclosure] when did piracy/theft become expression
of freedom
im going to the 'benz dealer in the morning to express my 1st
amendment right...
The Somalians are learning the hard way that it just isnt so...
bma
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