Comments on: Software Piracy http://www.blaahg.com/2005/02/06/software-piracy/ Just another WordPress weblog Sat, 01 Aug 2009 12:48:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Shrotriyee http://www.blaahg.com/2005/02/06/software-piracy/comment-page-1/#comment-34 Shrotriyee Thu, 01 Feb 2007 20:47:50 +0000 http://porthos.local/~Jacque/wordpress/?p=8#comment-34 Oldest post ever. Oldest post ever.

]]> By: Alex Jacque http://www.blaahg.com/2005/02/06/software-piracy/comment-page-1/#comment-9 Alex Jacque Sun, 21 Jan 2007 22:14:43 +0000 http://porthos.local/~Jacque/wordpress/?p=8#comment-9 Well, over the past few years I've delved further into the design community and have made quite a few friends that are in the business and have built many of my opinions on their views of how certain things should be done from what they have shared with me. My position on piracy changed for a few reasons, one of which was respect for those that do design for a career, another would be that if I'm going to be making money with these applications I can at least do it completely legit, yet another would be that the initial investment into these applications further solidifies the idea I have for myself for life, and lastly, well, that little incident with the BSA, that kinda had something to do with it too. Well, over the past few years I’ve delved further into the design community and have made quite a few friends that are in the business and have built many of my opinions on their views of how certain things should be done from what they have shared with me. My position on piracy changed for a few reasons, one of which was respect for those that do design for a career, another would be that if I’m going to be making money with these applications I can at least do it completely legit, yet another would be that the initial investment into these applications further solidifies the idea I have for myself for life, and lastly, well, that little incident with the BSA, that kinda had something to do with it too.

]]> By: Scott Kamen http://www.blaahg.com/2005/02/06/software-piracy/comment-page-1/#comment-8 Scott Kamen Sun, 21 Jan 2007 22:14:03 +0000 http://porthos.local/~Jacque/wordpress/?p=8#comment-8 It seems like your position on piracy has changed quite wholeheartedly from what it used to be. I'm just curious what curious; what prompted the change? -Scott It seems like your position on piracy has changed quite wholeheartedly from what it used to be. I’m just curious what curious; what prompted the change?

-Scott

]]> By: Alex Jacque http://www.blaahg.com/2005/02/06/software-piracy/comment-page-1/#comment-7 Alex Jacque Sun, 21 Jan 2007 22:13:04 +0000 http://porthos.local/~Jacque/wordpress/?p=8#comment-7 Well Chris, the RIAA only really concerns itself with music, and as we all know, music pirating has so deeply ingrained itself into our culture that I see no hope for the RIAA's current path of action for solving their problems. As for software piracy, the current steps being taken to solve that problem are namely more elaborate software registration processes and longer, more complicated, software keys. The <a>BSA</a> itself seems to be doing pretty well to somewhat counter software piracy since it has teamed up with the major names (ie Adobe, Microsoft, Apple, Macromedia, Sun, etc.). The BSA's current procedure to stop piracy lies within the registration of the software produced by it's members particularly the "phone-home" part where the software checks the serial you have against their database. If they see you're doing something you're not supposed to be, they fire off a warning to your ISP and they contact you, or whomever your account is under and warns you that you have copyrighted material on your computer and if it is not removed that you could lose your internet service and be prosecuted. Granted, that doesn't happen all the time with every pirate, but it does happen. I guess what I was trying to say in my article is that education is really the solution to slowing and possibly reversing the rate of software piracy. Well Chris, the RIAA only really concerns itself with music, and as we all know, music pirating has so deeply ingrained itself into our culture that I see no hope for the RIAA’s current path of action for solving their problems. As for software piracy, the current steps being taken to solve that problem are namely more elaborate software registration processes and longer, more complicated, software keys.

The BSA itself seems to be doing pretty well to somewhat counter software piracy since it has teamed up with the major names (ie Adobe, Microsoft, Apple, Macromedia, Sun, etc.). The BSA’s current procedure to stop piracy lies within the registration of the software produced by it’s members particularly the “phone-home” part where the software checks the serial you have against their database. If they see you’re doing something you’re not supposed to be, they fire off a warning to your ISP and they contact you, or whomever your account is under and warns you that you have copyrighted material on your computer and if it is not removed that you could lose your internet service and be prosecuted. Granted, that doesn’t happen all the time with every pirate, but it does happen.

I guess what I was trying to say in my article is that education is really the solution to slowing and possibly reversing the rate of software piracy.

]]> By: Scott Nadzam http://www.blaahg.com/2005/02/06/software-piracy/comment-page-1/#comment-6 Scott Nadzam Sun, 21 Jan 2007 22:10:54 +0000 http://porthos.local/~Jacque/wordpress/?p=8#comment-6 hey man. i dig your logo and your photography... very impressive. just thought you'd like to know that i found some typos/grammar, maybe just grammar, in your "about promethean" section of your site. other than that, everything looks great. let me know when you post more of your work. see you around. much love, Nadzy hey man. i dig your logo and your photography… very impressive. just thought you’d like to know that i found some typos/grammar, maybe just grammar, in your “about promethean” section of your site. other than that, everything looks great. let me know when you post more of your work. see you around. much love, Nadzy

]]> By: Chris Dart http://www.blaahg.com/2005/02/06/software-piracy/comment-page-1/#comment-4 Chris Dart Sun, 21 Jan 2007 22:06:50 +0000 http://porthos.local/~Jacque/wordpress/?p=8#comment-4 Well I agree with what you said but what should we do about it. I dont see a way of stopping people from downloading. It's become such a big thing that I dont think anyone or anything can stop it. I guess the RIAA is doing there part but there is millions of people pirating. If they were to prosecute everyone that was pirating many of our friends and family would be sitting in jail or prison right now. So how is it that we would fix this problem without putting the majority of our general public behind bars? Well I agree with what you said but what should we do about it. I dont see a way of stopping people from downloading. It’s become such a big thing that I dont think anyone or anything can stop it. I guess the RIAA is doing there part but there is millions of people pirating. If they were to prosecute everyone that was pirating many of our friends and family would be sitting in jail or prison right now. So how is it that we would fix this problem without putting the majority of our general public behind bars?

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