Comments on: On software piracy https://briksoftware.com/blog/archives/15 Thu, 14 Jun 2012 18:56:48 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.7 By: mike flynn https://briksoftware.com/blog/archives/15/comment-page-1#comment-3282 Wed, 23 May 2007 12:39:31 +0000 https://briksoftware.com/blog/?p=15#comment-3282 I love the word “piracy”. sounds really evil. I think you mean breach of copyright. The answer is simple. Sue. “But it is not worth it” I hear you say. Commercial reality. Get used to it. Say I buy a computer magazine that has a fully operational copy of 3DS Max 9 on a free DVD. The software is suppposedly time limited to 30 days. If I instal the prog, find a keygen and the prog thanks me for registering it, what am I guilty of? By the way, assume I ignore the EULA, no criminal offense there as far as I know. It would be a civil matter, so sue me.

Now, have I broken any law? The program was given away, and it is no use bleating that the intention is to only “give it away” for evaluation purposes. I wouldn’t buy the prog anyway, so no remuneration lost by the giver.

Next thing, the music industry will want to make it a crime if my wife and I both listen to the same CD at the same time, or more than once!

Interesting question for you. I have a shrink wrapped copy of XP Pro in front of me. I can’t be bothered opening it (no, I’m not joking), so I continue to use the one I downloaded from the web. Have I done anything illegal? I have paid for a copy of XP Pro, and I use the software – what’s the problem?

Educate away. I wish you you a long and happy life.

]]> By: Vic DeMarines https://briksoftware.com/blog/archives/15/comment-page-1#comment-184 Mon, 05 Feb 2007 19:13:10 +0000 https://briksoftware.com/blog/?p=15#comment-184 I agree for certain software titles, especially the low dollar products, preventing piracy would not necessarily save you any license revenue – these people would use something else. If fact, I can see how piracy could help market products far better then a small company can do ever effort on their own. However, high value software like CAD and other scientific products are being pirated and used by businesses in China and I am sure other emerging markets. Although I agree software protection is not absolute, as with any security product you can raise the bar enough to deter the behavior.

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