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Skriven 2006-10-02 12:27:52 av Roy Witt (1:397/22)
  Kommentar till text 40246 av tim_richardso50@hotmail.com (1:123/789.0)
Ärende: Age old debating rick...
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30 Sep 06 10:36, Tim Richardson wrote to Roy Witt:

 TR> Roy Witt -> Dan Ceppa wrote:


 RW>> Heh heh heh ... When I pointed out to him that the Pirate Bay logo
 RW>> which he's made available on his website for download was also
 RW>> copyrighted material, he claimed that it wasn't the PB logo;


 RW>> it also says 'The Pirate Bay" on it and the background behind the
 RW>> 'Phonix' *is* the copyrighted pirate ship that they use all over
 RW>> their website.


 RW>> So, Vlist is making available material that is copyrighted by the
 RW>> very people who violate everybody elses copyrights. Turn-around is
 RW>> fair play, I guess.


 TR> A friend of mine has sites where he goes to get pirated software,
 TR> usually utilities that are either rather expensive, or just
 TR> unavailable to the ordinary computer user. And he gets some really
 TR> great stuff sometimes. But there's a kind of harsh trade-off;

You get what you pay for.

 TR> Every once in awhile he gets hold of something that either wasn't set
 TR> up correctly by the `pirate' guru who filched it, or it was a program
 TR> that contained a file that, if the program isn't legally purchased
 TR> and properly registered, will corrupt the entire program after the
 TR> second or third illegal use.

 TR> A few times he's even had to completely re-format his C: in order to
 TR> wipe whatever fucked up his operating system.

 TR> He backs his system up almost weekly, since some of the flight
 TR> programs he has put add-ons in boost the size of the program
 TR> tremendously. His Microsoft Flight Simulator for instance, with the
 TR> program itself and all the add-ons he's gotten, plus the scenery he's
 TR> `built' himself, make the program top out at around twenty gig or
 TR> more he tells me.

 TR> Recently, I found a copy of `Nero Start Smart', but it was an old one
 TR> with limited features. But it would do what I needed it to do at the
 TR> time, so I bought it. Used it to back up some files I had on a drive
 TR> I wasn't able to access using Windows XP Pro.....but `could' access
 TR> by re-installing Windows 98 SE to an old drive I had.

 TR> He goes out to one of his pirate sites and gets a copy of Nero that
 TR> is the brand new version (version 7, I think), calls me up and tells
 TR> me he's gettin' the program right then in a download that will take
 TR> about an hour, but he'll have it for me soon.

 TR> In the mean time I went to Fry's, a local computer market, and while
 TR> I was there I looked for that program and priced it. It retailed for
 TR> $99.

San Diego, San Marcos, NorCal??

 TR> So.....the guy finishes downloading the program from the pirate site,
 TR> he opens the file and it starts setting itself up. Its almost
 TR> finished setting up, and his computer hangs! No matter what he did he
 TR> couldn't get it to `un'hang. Finally he just turned it off and tried
 TR> to re-boot, but it wouldn't re-boot. It only went through the
 TR> start-up sequence, got to where it `opens' the desktop, and instead
 TR> it was right back in the screen where it hung, and that was it.

 TR> He had to re-format his whole drive, re-intall Windows XP (a
 TR> `pirated' version, by the way), and then he (are you ready for this!)
 TR> goes back to the pirate site and *re*-downloads that same program!

Of course! The bug was fixed while he was reformatting his drive. :o)

 TR> He offered the program to me when he gets it set up. I told him I had
 TR> the `freeware' version that did what I wanted it to (back up files
 TR> and directories in case I have another computer crash), and didn't
 TR> need the newer version. The truth is.....I'd be very leery of putting
 TR> anything he gave me on my system before I saw how it ran on `his'
 TR> system, anyway.

You can download pirated software from the Fidonews Editors website. Find
one of his messages and you'll see the link at the bottom.

               R\%/itt


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