blog: pirates of the carribean

[WimdeLange]

What it is called is not really important. And referring to a lexicon is a little stupid to me because there are lots of terms used on the internet with a specific meaning that are not part of a lexicon. I did just take a look at the lexicon I use for English and it is from 1975. Go figure with internet words.

But what is more important that people should buy the stuff that they use often.

[nikos]

And no, not everybody who pirates would be willing to pay for the software - probably most of them wouldn't

yes, some people are allergic to credit cards and would never buy nothing. But I don't think everybody is in the same basket.

first of all the article showed with real data that more than half of the warez operate in countries where people can afford $30 for software

then if people really like the software and need it, they will have to buy or find a similar cracked program. About 25% of the warez I monitored were from repeated offenders, that is people who saw the warez page accusing them of piracy then did it again. So they must have liked xplorer2 to run it again and again

there are other people that download every crack they find and test it, that don't really care or need xplorer2. That portion obviously is not convertible to sales

[BugHunter]

and more to the point, if you think that policing doesn't make a difference, try convincing your government to cancel the police and see how your country will turn into greece in no time!

That is not a valid point in the current context  :roll:

And referring to a lexicon is a little stupid to me because there are lots of terms used on the internet with a specific meaning that are not part of a lexicon. I did just take a look at the lexicon I use for English and it is from 1975. Go figure with internet words.

Yeah book lexicons do tend to get old pretty fast.

Besides i didn't say a anything about a book, you assumed i did.
What i meant is you should do research on the words.
Second thing people usually do is looking up the word in a lexicon.
( First thing people usually do is to ask somebody, which is most of the times bad for obvious reasons )

But oh look a simple google for lexicon and what pops up, a web page equivalent of a book lexicon.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/lexicon

and here's a google trick:
http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=c ... ne+lexicon

And referring to a lexicon is a little stupid to me because there are lots of terms used on the internet with a specific meaning that are not part of a lexicon.

Who's the stupid one now ?

It is called a brain, it is recommended to use it at all times.  

[WimdeLange]

I don't know who is stupid. If someone is using a term, I don't say every time that he uses a word that is possibly out of context, that this person doesn't know what he is talking about. Piracy, theft, not paying. What does it matter. I'm not a law person!
I take a look at the context (and not a lexicon, paper or not) and guess what he is meaning and react on this. If the person doesn't understand me, we are defining better the meaning of words and we understand each other better in the end. Better end the dualing about words.

Noone is stupid, there are only problems with communication and understanding each other.

[Robert2]

Pirates don't copy, pirates steal. Now could you tell me how you can steal stuff from a web server?
(Ok, technically you could, sigh.)

Hi All,
There is no need to argue endlessly about definitions. Some people call industrial espionage “research”. But it is still a criminal activity and it is sanctioned as such, however clever the guilty might be at fudging the issue. Same thing with illegal copies of software: anybody buying and/or installing a software agrees to its “license agreement”. Such license agreements invariably forbid the “engineering”, “sharing”, or “giving away” of the registration code, no matter how you go or dissertate about this. In legal, and also in moral terms, “sharing” or “giving away” a  misbegotten registration code or registered copy is simply in breach of the license agreement to which everybody agrees to explicitly when installing the software.
Cheers,
Robert

[snemarch]

Robert2: license agreements aren't legally binding in all countries, though

[Robert2]

I wrote “in legal and also in moral terms”. Some people feel bound by their word of honor, others don’t. This takes the latter closer to pirates than they care to admit…

[Kilmatead]

It would appear there are worse things than a few cracked copies of things floating around, if you're a major developer. Never trust employees.

[spchtr]

Why am I being redirected to the warez page every time I try to rename a file?  I have purchased a copy of the professional, and a portable copy.  I do not understand why I keep getting redirected to the warez sites and getting the settings of xplorer2 wiped out.  Please explain.

[fgagnon]

Best to ask nikos directly (send email) and explain your particulars.
It is likely something unexpected about your setup.