Thread: What is "piracy" and is it ever justified
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2010-03-03 , 17:38
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Originally Posted by fatalsaint View Post
In that case I'll go away again.

A coherent, legitimate discussion I'll participate in. (difference in pay models, what developers should or shouldn't or could or couldn't do, etc).
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Please feel free to start a new thread non that but this one has a specific title.

Originally Posted by fatalsaint View Post
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Fruitless bantering I won't.

You aren't going to stop hackers from cracking DRM, or pirating software, by ranting on a backwater nobody forum. Even if this were somehow an official Pirate, or Anti-pirate forum where it was on topic and noticed by people that actually maybe could potentially almost make a difference... it won't.

And to just up and quit software development because you finally realized that you won't stop piracy is equally silly... you know there are pirates - you know your software will be pirated.. just like as an SA I know my systems can be hacked.. and if I'm popular enough are likely to get hacked eventually.

The effort then is damage mitigation.. whether you can make enough money off the people that do pay vs those that don't for you sleep happily at night.
As an SA you are, I assume, paid for the work that you contribute to your clients. If your income was based on whether your systems sold to the general public that would be another matter.

I never said I was quitting software development. As a company however we will not be commercially supporting development on Maemo at present as we don't have a way of recouping substantial costs for development. We will simply persue other platforms as we have in the past to cover our investments.

As for knowing your systems can be hacked - All software can be broken eventually but I would hope you are doing due dilligence and trying to avoid that possibility unless he systems in question have no reason to be protected in the first place in which case is it really hacking?

The point though is not whether you can stay ahead in the 'game' but whether or not you should be having to do it in the first place!