Illegal Software, Pirated!

[loki_fab]

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i agree.
pirated == kinawat/tinulis == illegal.
let's be consistent and be good
there are a lot (cheap if not free) of alternative to expensive software. let's hate the monopolies but for goodness sake, let's not support crime.

[vern]

I love how people justify piracy. Lisud daw ang kwarta ... heres a hint ... you shouldn't have even bought a computer if you can't afford the software. Stop buying your pirated games and go get a damn job. There is also no commercial software out there that there is no suitable open source replacement.

[jekjek2134]

sell all original software at affordable price. kana....mo minus ang mo palit og pirated...simple as that.

[ace_ram]

Go OPEN SOURCE if dili maka afford!

[leo_trams]

no offence mga bro,pero mas cheaper man sad gud pirated dba??nd why spend more money para lang ana atlist naapa ta money para mka buy ta other stuff that we want,,dats not too bad man sd cguro if u tink nga were putting down the maker of that software,if mo donate ta nila kta nsad ang kalooy,were just helping our selves lang ba in tym of crisis na bya lisod na au pangita money or trabaho karon..tanx

kung ang ikaw ang producer/programmer sa software, malipay ka? It took you months/years to develop unya kopyahon/pirate-ton imo software unya ang halin dili maadto nimo, malipay ka? Ganahan pa ka mo-produce or mo-program?

Parehas ra na sa jeepney driver ka, pirmi puno ang imo jeepney ug pasahero pero ang ni-plite usa or duha ra, ang uban 'bokong' na...ganahan pa ka mamasahero?

[DonJenn]

btaw! mao na sila dili muhunong kay daghan man gud mupalit nila... labi na dha sa colon!
mao na maninguha sad na sila ug produce kay kusog man ang demand.....
please don't support them!

[Lord_Ac]

sell all original software at affordable price. kana....mo minus ang mo palit og pirated...simple as that.

I absolutely agree!

Ako, I usually buy Original Audio CDs.. cuz 250 or 500 rman na sila. Original PC games costs at least 2.5k more or less... Isn't that a bit too much? Ok ra sa U.S. cuz pwede ra nmo ibalik ang game if d ka ganahan... Pero here? Pilipinas? Kuwangan man gani ang sukli usahay... hehehehhe

[fingolfin]

.. how come the original softwares are so expensive ?? Anybody care to break down the high cost??

... i think the message of piracy is why sell it so high when they the manufacturers can sell it for a lower price.

[vern]

.. how come the original softwares are so expensive ?? Anybody care to break down the high cost??

... i think the message of piracy is why sell it so high when they the manufacturers can sell it for a lower price.

People make the mistake of thinking that manufacturing is cheap ... therefore software must be cheap. Intellectual property is not cheap. If it was manufacturing alone, software would cost mere pennys/centavos. Business have to pay their employees ... businesses have to make money to stay in business. No one gets a free lunch, people who expect to get a free/cheap lunch don't deserve software.

When I lived in Cebu, I bought pirated software. I bought pirated games. Why? Because I was young and I didn't have the kind of money I needed. Just because I couldn't afford software ... does not make piracy right. 100% of everything I pirated for personal use ... was NOT a need. Everything that was a NEED could easily have been substituted with something free. Today, except for the many games I own, I personally own only 2 pieces of retail software ... XP Pro and Pocomail.

[geff_chang]

if you find a commercial software that is so good you can't live without it,
pay for it. it's worth it.. if not for the developers who made it,
that software wouldn't exist. it's only right to give them the credit they deserve for their effort.

if you can't afford original, look for open source or freeware.
there's plenty of them at sourceforge.
there's also portableapps.com,
you can find lots of free apps that can be run from as USB/flash disk.