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Basically, for the sake of fairness and equality, if its right for one person to steal something because they have a so called 'valid reason' (ie I have no money but why should that hinder me), then that, by default, means that it should be ok for everyone to steal.
I mean, why should one person be allowed to steal, just cos they don't have any money, when someone who does have the money cos they work their ass off doing whatever job they do, isn't allowed, just because they have the money to buy it.
If one person can steal, then its only fair that everyone else can. And if everyone stole their software, the software companies would have no money in the first place. Which means they would have no funding to even make the software, and there would be no software.
Therefore it is wrong, plain and simple. I don't care what your circumstances are. I can barely afford to buy software, I work a dead end job and have a mortgage and bills to pay. So I save my pennies, and I work hard for what I want.
The way I figure it, if I can do it on my piece of sh*t salary, then so can anyone else. Salary not high enough? Get a better job. I have no qualifications, no degree, not even an A level, just a bunch of GCSE's that don't count for shite, yet I still manage to earn enough to save a few pennies and buy what I need. Because I work hard . So the 'I couldn't afford the qualifications that would get me a job that would earn enough to buy this sh*t' argument is an invalid crock of crap aswell.
You want something? You earn the money for it, you buy it. Theres nothing wrong with wanting something you can't afford, but the 'I want it now' attitude, which is what piracy comes down to is simply impatient and greedy....and besides, there are always legal and free alternatives.
And another thing...I hate all this 'paying money to these comapanies is feeding these corporations that suck up your money and overpay themselves....blah blah blah...explioting the masses....blah blah blah...communism communism...fair distribution of weath'crap!
What, don't you think it cost money to make software? Let alone any product. You try building something like Cubase from the base code up, and then try telling me you don't expect to get paid well for it. You think resources, both human and material, are free? You think the sort of mammouth pc's they are using to make this stuff comes cheap? You think programming an entire DAW from the ground up is easy?
Fine then...make your own f***ing software and quitting ripping other people off.
This whole 'anti capitalist' don't pay the corporations crap smacks of middle class psuedo-communism, well maybe thats are harsh way of looking at it, but you are basically saying "I am poor, therefore I should get the stuff 'rich' people pay good money for, for free". Well thats almost middle class communism to me. The ethic whereby "I can't be arsed to work hard in a job, hell, I can't be arsed to work at all, therefore I have no money, therefore give me some of yours, cos its not fair that you have money and I don't". Thats a cop out.
Ok this is becoming somewhat of a rant so I'll sum it up...
You have no money, other people do. You think that because of that you should get what they pay for for free. You want a cut of what everyone else has, cos you have none of your own...
Solution? As I said...go look for more money you can earn somewhere. Or don't, and live without the stuff you want. Finder a cheaper alternative.
But don't expect anything for free, like I said, if its ok for one person to do it, its ok for everyone, and everyone doing it would undoubtably not be 'ok' by any strech of the imagination for the reasons I stated above.
Either way you look at it, you cannot justify stealing, either as an individual or en masse...
I mean, why should one person be allowed to steal, just cos they don't have any money, when someone who does have the money cos they work their ass off doing whatever job they do, isn't allowed, just because they have the money to buy it.
If one person can steal, then its only fair that everyone else can. And if everyone stole their software, the software companies would have no money in the first place. Which means they would have no funding to even make the software, and there would be no software.
Therefore it is wrong, plain and simple. I don't care what your circumstances are. I can barely afford to buy software, I work a dead end job and have a mortgage and bills to pay. So I save my pennies, and I work hard for what I want.
The way I figure it, if I can do it on my piece of sh*t salary, then so can anyone else. Salary not high enough? Get a better job. I have no qualifications, no degree, not even an A level, just a bunch of GCSE's that don't count for shite, yet I still manage to earn enough to save a few pennies and buy what I need. Because I work hard . So the 'I couldn't afford the qualifications that would get me a job that would earn enough to buy this sh*t' argument is an invalid crock of crap aswell.
You want something? You earn the money for it, you buy it. Theres nothing wrong with wanting something you can't afford, but the 'I want it now' attitude, which is what piracy comes down to is simply impatient and greedy....and besides, there are always legal and free alternatives.
And another thing...I hate all this 'paying money to these comapanies is feeding these corporations that suck up your money and overpay themselves....blah blah blah...explioting the masses....blah blah blah...communism communism...fair distribution of weath'crap!
What, don't you think it cost money to make software? Let alone any product. You try building something like Cubase from the base code up, and then try telling me you don't expect to get paid well for it. You think resources, both human and material, are free? You think the sort of mammouth pc's they are using to make this stuff comes cheap? You think programming an entire DAW from the ground up is easy?
Fine then...make your own f***ing software and quitting ripping other people off.
This whole 'anti capitalist' don't pay the corporations crap smacks of middle class psuedo-communism, well maybe thats are harsh way of looking at it, but you are basically saying "I am poor, therefore I should get the stuff 'rich' people pay good money for, for free". Well thats almost middle class communism to me. The ethic whereby "I can't be arsed to work hard in a job, hell, I can't be arsed to work at all, therefore I have no money, therefore give me some of yours, cos its not fair that you have money and I don't". Thats a cop out.
Ok this is becoming somewhat of a rant so I'll sum it up...
You have no money, other people do. You think that because of that you should get what they pay for for free. You want a cut of what everyone else has, cos you have none of your own...
Solution? As I said...go look for more money you can earn somewhere. Or don't, and live without the stuff you want. Finder a cheaper alternative.
But don't expect anything for free, like I said, if its ok for one person to do it, its ok for everyone, and everyone doing it would undoubtably not be 'ok' by any strech of the imagination for the reasons I stated above.
Either way you look at it, you cannot justify stealing, either as an individual or en masse...
