Overture Search Terms Showcase Piracy Desire

swfnews guy writes: "swfnews.com (a slashcode based site) today published this article regarding how Overture's search term suggested tool can be used to see the desired piracy of a particular piece of software. I find it disturbing that more people searched for the crack for Flash Mx than for tutorials on how to use it."

Free Flash Alternatives

[hbmartin]

If Macromedia doesn't want to make flash free(as in price), I respect their righ to do so. But it's cool to see free(code and price) alternatives becoming usable. My favorite is the PHP-based FreeMovie [sourceforge.net].

Overture tool

[Target Drone]

You can play with the search tool mentioned in the article by going here [overture.com].

Its kind of fun to see what people search for. I tried typing in "XXX". The top 4 searches were:

• free xxx
• xxx password
• free xxx picture
• free xxx movie

Seems like it's not just Flash Mx that people want for free.

Re:yeah, that does sadden me

[Tommy_S]

Everyone knows that huh? In my experience exactly the opposite is true. From what I've seen pretty much ANY commercial or shareware software you want is freely accessible in a matter of minutes from google by searching on "name_of_software warez" or "name_of_software crack" or "name_of_software serial" or "name_of_software keygen" Now when I learned about this, I found it pretty amazing that all this piracy takes place right out in the open. But the fact is, it does.

Re:Who does piracy hurt?

[macrom]

I'll tell you who and what piracy hurts : the developer and the developer's spirit. There's nothing shitier in this world that to see copies of your software floating around IRC the day after you sent it off to manufacturing for duplication. You start to wonder if all those nights your wife went to bed alone, if the fact that you watched your kid grow up on a video tape or the fact that your friends stopped calling you to go out and party were all worth it.

I'll agree that piracy is something hard to quantify; how much money is truly lost from people who have no money to buy the software anyhow? But the wallets of the high-salaried execs aren't the only things affected by piracy -- remember that next time you download and install something you shouldn't be owning.