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Harkoliar was right, that was well said bungleau. The programs have many uses, and I was not - and still am not - very educated on the p2p issue.
That said, Night Stalker, it may be true that CD and software prices were jacked up before p2p and before CD burners. However, piracy still existed -- I had friends who were very gifted at cracking games and even making distributable copies of those password keys many games came with during the late 80s and early 90s. That said, an evil industry still does not justify theft, I have learned. Fix the industry, don't resort to theft.
Felix, sorry, you are a thief. Plain and simple. Just because you can't afford your games and CDs doesn't give you the right to steal. Ask Jean Val Jean. It's okay -- I was a thief once too. I owned at least 30 cracked pirated games at one point in time -- hell, for many years I bought NO games, yet played many. I also stole in other ways, for sure. At one point in time, I considered it a moral imperative to steal from a corporation and/or the government at every given opportunity. The only theft I considered immoral was stealing from an individual. Of course my views changed and I grew into different phases of life.
So, I'm not saying you are evil, or bad, or that I don't like you. But, you are a thief.
[edit] To and too are not the same, though too is too much like to for me to type accurately sometimes.
[ 05-08-2003, 01:51 PM: Message edited by: Timber Loftis ]
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