Warez by any other name..... (Score 1)

I am 30 and have been in and out of the warez scene for 15 years. There has always been warez in the world of computers be it: sneaker net (passing warez via some sort of media), ftp, irc, web links (direct downloads), news groups, zmodem, xmodem, whatever. Where there is a will, ther will always be a way. Until it got to be all the rage, no one really cared, (ok some dark mansion somewhere so guy thought man i could by gold toothpicks if not for those damned pirates!) The bigger picture of all this is who is losing money.... People who bootleg software, are either A) people who wouldn't, or couldn't buy the software (egads at the cost of some some software... add up photoshop, office 2003, XP pro, a couple games, cd buring software, etc... add in the price of the computer and now your talking some bucks. or B) people who want it to learn from to get jobs do better at jobs, use it at work, etc. In fact, I am sure there is a study that shows people learning the stuff requesting it or recomening it to there office who buys legit copies, or the fact that the more people whon know Product Whatever, the more companies choose to use Product Whatever... I know I have learned skill after skill from downloaded books, classes, and software. All of which got used on the job and ended up getting a lot of said software and books purchased. People who bootleg music and movies .... well p2p may have made it simple for the common man, but movies have been boot legged FOREVER ... personnally I have 450+ store bought dvd's and 5 music cd's :) cough (120gigs mp3s..) I had reall cd's once but when my case of 200 cd's got swiped and the insurance company wouldn't pay for it since i didn't have renters insurance, I downloaded my 200 albums ... this was 7 years ago... hmmmm I am pretty sure I used only ftp, or borrowed cd's to replenish them... Since then I only collect random songs from my lifetime (ack and some from my parents .. damn road trips) and occasionally i'll look up billboard hits and grab some.. but as for paying as much for a cd with 2 good songs on it as i do for a dvd, please spend some more time in the studio. and the cost for reproduction? I can make my own label case included (and what the hell wrap some Glad Wrap around it and Vola, one quarter later I have a nice bootlegged copy they want 15 bucks for. and Movies, a crappy ass movie I pay to see in a theater costs me 16 bucks (Have to bring the wife) and then if we like it i get to spring another 15 when it hits dvd ... so 31 dollars in total ... or i could grab a copy love it or hate and buy it or don't ... and with 450+ I do buy the occasional. How about if I go see it in theater I can joing a movie club and on the way out swipe my stub and my account card and soon as the dvd is out it hits my house at like 7.50 plus 1.50 for delivery or maybe each movie I go see adds some discount action twords dvd purchase by that production company ... something for crying out loud ... Oh what if I register my cd with the production company and if it's lost or stolen i can download a new copy. :) I guess I'll have to switch to digital downloads, ubtil they say you can only dload it once. :) One last thing, As for software, once we move to thin clients (hehehe full circle, can you say unix X terminals?) Then that pretty much does away with boot legging , mp3's, movies, etc ..... the people who host the apps, and storage, and stream you your stored stuff, will have the DRM action going, and won't allow you to bootleg, or install bootleg, or type the word bootleg, or fritters. and then bill can go sit on a stick.... The End.