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I love little facts like this. I recall seeing an Instagram(?) post from Kanye West where he’d had a tab open in the background for the Pirate Bay, I believe s
by lostgame 4y ago
I love little facts like this.
I recall seeing an Instagram(?) post from Kanye West where he’d had a tab open in the background for the Pirate Bay, I believe searching for a fairly common plugin. (EDIT: I confirmed this, link at [0])
The reality is - a lot of us pirated software to get by, and potentially to learn; especially as younger folks.
But as we grow in our industry and career, (especially if you work in software!) I believe supporting software by buying it is important.
For myself - I justified pirating software that I used virtually every day as ‘when I make enough money from it, I’ll buy a license’.
Old habits die hard; though, and I’ve only recently turned that around.
Great example: for years and years I’d used a MacOS independently developed FTP client called ‘Fetch’, but each time I’d either just used the trial and kill the plists to reset it or found ‘some alternatives’, when available.
I’d got a tax refund recently, I was dealing with the expired trial prompt, and this time I decided to just finally drop the…$25(?) it was to buy a license. It felt good, and I’ll never have to deal with that minor annoyance again.
As I get older, and my careers are going well; the inconvenience of keeping an up to date pirated version of software, blocking IP addresses, etc; becomes more annoying than it is just to throw some cash at a license.
I just want the tool. I want it to ‘just work’ - and if it doesn’t - it’s nice to have the potential option for support.
That being said, I do refuse to pay for some software out of principle, namely those that charge subscription fees.
[0] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/03/kanye-west-caught-using-pirate-bay-to-download-music-software/?amp=1 https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/03/kanye...