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and it, and others like it, will continue to live forever. Before TPB, when I was in college, I used to hang out on #warez on EFNet's IRC servers... Before 1996
by martin1975 7y ago
and it, and others like it, will continue to live forever. Before TPB, when I was in college, I used to hang out on #warez on EFNet's IRC servers... Before 1996, I used to dial in to BBS' that would host these. The tech doesn't matter when the problem is entirely ethical. Pirates, like porn peddlers, are the first to adapt and adopt new tech to perpetuate their ideology. No amount of tech, or even legal action is going to address issues of ethics.
With that said, how do you address it? Probably by making software more affordable for those who pirate it, wish to buy it but cannot. Offering low cost subscriptions, e.g. instead of exorbitant one time fees. I don't necessarily want to buy a game.. I dont play games that much anymore, but I wouldn't mind subscribing to a service that offered it for a month or two, get my jollies and then leave when I'm not using it.
So rather than try to defeat it - and ideas are notoriously hard to defeat... try to "compete" with it and pray that people's conscience kicks in at some point.
I don't see what more past that one can do.
- 0xffff2 7y ago>Offering low cost subscriptions, e.g. instead of exorbitant one time fees. I couldn't disagree more. I pirated Adobe's products many years ago when I was a poor student who couldn't afford the price. I also wouldn't have been able to justify the price of a monthly subscription back then. Now though, I would pay any price up to a couple thousand dollars for a one-time purchase of CS6 Photoshop and Illustrator, but it's literally impossible to do this now.
- slenk 7y agoThis. As a student I couldn't afford it, but as an adult I would pay for Premier and Photoshop. I don't use them enough to justify the outrageous monthly price to use the two. So instead of getting some money from me now, Adobe will never get any.
- ip26 7y agoSetting aside other circumstances, IMO student pricing is usually dealt with pretty well overall. I think I paid $10 apiece for several different cutting-edge niche software packages with four to five figure commercial license costs, and various software from Microsoft was free. Even Adobe does it sometimes: https://www.cnet.com/news/5-a-year-for-photoshop-and-other-creative-cloud-apps-yes-as-adobe-slashes-education-pricing/ https://www.cnet.com/news/5-a-year-for-photoshop-and-other-c...
- stOneskull 7y agogreat. i'm a student. i study at home with courses i pirate.
- anoncake 7y agoThat's a problem if you're willing to pirate but unwilling to pirate.
- Lord_Zero 7y agoThe trend now is to offer a monthly subscription which ends up being more after 12 months then the one time fee.