Heinz, you are absolutely correct --- there really can't be any debate that the law prohibits people from pirating this stuff, regardless of whether that law flows from the license agreement or elsewhere.
Maybe somebody who has been more involved in pirating than I have can lend me some insight on an issue I have always found curious. I understand that if a guy has purchased a program and a buddy wants to copy it, the guy who owns it might make a copy to save his buddy some cash (notwithstanding the legal and moral issues it raises). I understand the motivations at work there --- the buddy wants to save some cash, and the owner wants to do a favor for his buddy. But what motivates people to post a cracked copy on the Internet for public distribution to a bunch of people they don't even know? I simply don't understand what makes them think this is a good idea.
Course, I don't understand what motivates a Pakistani tribe to order a teenage girl raped as punishment for her brother's affair with a married woman. Maybe I'm just getting out of sync with the world.
Maybe somebody who has been more involved in pirating than I have can lend me some insight on an issue I have always found curious. I understand that if a guy has purchased a program and a buddy wants to copy it, the guy who owns it might make a copy to save his buddy some cash (notwithstanding the legal and moral issues it raises). I understand the motivations at work there --- the buddy wants to save some cash, and the owner wants to do a favor for his buddy. But what motivates people to post a cracked copy on the Internet for public distribution to a bunch of people they don't even know? I simply don't understand what makes them think this is a good idea.
Course, I don't understand what motivates a Pakistani tribe to order a teenage girl raped as punishment for her brother's affair with a married woman. Maybe I'm just getting out of sync with the world.