Thread: Is it okay for a student with limited financial resources to pirate software?
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geohsia is offline geohsia
2010-09-19 , 15:57
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Originally Posted by qwenjis View Post
Unfortunately, it's a wild place and people tend to value only visible things(cars clothes and so on,you understand me). For stuff like software, movies and everything else people use, see or hear but can't literary touch there's no value. It's considered to be irrelevant that's why people can't think of paying somebody for movie for example.
No, that is called rationalization. You see if something has no value, then they're not interested in it. If software has no value no one would want to use it. If a song has no value no one would want to listen to it. If a movie has no value no one would want to watch it.

What you're saying is people rationalize to themselves that they should not pay for it because they can get it for free. It has value, otherwise they wouldn't put in the time or the effort to pirate it.

I find it interesting that you know it's wrong but do it anyways. At least you know it's wrong.