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What justification? If someone can't cope with a buying process then they shouldn't buy, it is no excuse for stealing. This is as asinine as seeing a long queue
by epo 16y ago
What justification? If someone can't cope with a buying process then they shouldn't buy, it is no excuse for stealing. This is as asinine as seeing a long queue at a supermarket and declaring this is "justification" for walking out with the goods without paying.
- rkudeshi 16y agoI mean that people who engage in piracy can claim they do so because it's difficult for them to easily and legally purchase the same item. When VMWare moves to a simpler (perhaps iTunes-like) system, then pirates have no rational justification.
- marknutter 16y agoIt's a justification. You don't have to agree with it, but not doing so doesn't make it any less of a justification.
- billybob 16y ago"The line was long" is also a justification for shoplifting. "He looked at me funny" is also a justification for murder. All you're saying is "the offender can tell him/herself that they have a reason." Which is always true for anything anybody does. I get that you should make it easy for people to buy your software legitimately. But I don't buy the argument that if you don't, they are "justified" in stealing it. Everybody rationalizes whatever they do. That doesn't make it right.