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Re: Piracy, warez and You.
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Originally Posted by vip3r69 View Post
Hi there,

I would like to add my two cents if I may.

I download a lot of cracked/serials software, now I know its wrong and it bugs me sometimes. I'm not trying to justify my wrong doings but if I may explain why I do this.

Lets take the new SPB Mobile Shell, cost is USD 29,95. So for the US people this is a pretty fair price if you look at the average salary. For people living in the UK it equates to 15 pounds. Again looking at the average salary this is a fair price. Now I live in South Africa and this is eqaul to ZAR 234,00. That is a lot of money where the average income is below ZAR 6000,00. If I had to pay ZAR 50,00 then hell yeah, I would have no pirated software on my ppc. Even if you look at the fact that a lot of these companies offer no support in SA, I have to rely on site like this to get support on most of the stuff.

So yes, what I'm doing is wrong and I do feel guilty.

If anyone can give me a different way of looking at this I would love to here from you.

Thanks for listening.

MAD
I respect your opinion, and know where your coming from with the price of software, and the fact that it keeps getting redone, and re-sold....life and family make it tough to keep up. But if you request another way of looking at it, I would add that there is a lot of support, no matter your location, on their (you mentioned SPB, so I will stick with them) forum, in fact, they are very good to their customers there!! and as you mentioned, sites like this are great for that as well.

As for the price, another way of looking at it is like this: These companies are NOT stupid, they know as soon as they release something, there will be a crack, or serial generator hot on it's heels, so I can imagine they are thinking (logically) that if they release a study that can be sold for $15 and for every one they sell will be ripped off 2-3 times, then if they charge $30, they can still make a profit with all the cracked copies out there!!

As I said, just another way of thinking about it!!!
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