Honestly, they are creating shades of gray *derp* because maybe THERE ARE to them? Ever think of that? Just because you don't agree with them doesn't mean others are wrong for not subscribing to your smugly placed ideas, you know.

The inheent problem [in fact, IMO, the ONLY problem] with your argument is putting it into the scope of [work X] being copyrighted or not. THE ILLEGALITY IS BASED ON PERMISSIONS OR LACK THEREOF, not IN OF ITSELF whether a work is copyrighted. Copyrigt infringement is based largely on permissions or lack thereof, for example.

The business model may suck royally - making a demo that last's 5 minutes, and forcing you to download tons of GB of data even if you are just trying the game - seriously [though the IDEA of download it all, if you like it, just register and you have the full version is a good one] - but the sim, from what I've heard and seen, is incredible - I would hate for this to fuck all that up.

By allowing these bots to run as flawed as they are now, they're accessories, no way around it.

Well, nobody said they have thus far, and even if they do say it, they do - we all do, IT'S CALLED PRIVACY you fucking moron.

Never mind that people think like that seriously, so it really isn't obvious in any sense of the word.

Um... first point is irrelevant, 2nd point is flat wrong, mr. Anon. Coward.

Actually, the thing is the example DOES provide it, the problem is too many people butcher the shit out of the quote and leave the important points in the example out, and as a result all we have is a discombobulated mess.

There typically is a comments section on the page for a particular torrent. Bad torrents are called out there it seems.

Well, aside from the fact that no stealing is involved - proven by many logically sound assertions, can you prove pirates are to blame for this mess of DRM, and not the companies that overreact, and implement buggy, half-assed and overbearing restrictions?

No. Breaking DRM should not be illegal. If we have a product and want to make a copy, so long as we don't share it illegally, that's our natural and logical right. They have no control over what we do in our homes, so to criminalize that they have no control over s beyond stupid, as is you inane and retarded rambling.

So? Broke the law maybe, but that wasn't the focus of the discussion at this point. Stop shifting the goalposts.

um... who said anything about actually pirating Windows aside from something being so ineffective that pirating would be better? RTFP more?

Who cares? I care, people who believe in the notion that not everything is everybody's business care. Privacy matters to us, if you don't understand that, that's your thing, don't make it our problem.

Sounds less an issue of being good or bad and more a matter of crappy search algorithms.