The idiocy of this argument is that the costs of developing crack-proof schemes would have to be passed on to the consumer, who then complains about the high costs, and uses that at further rationale for piracy.
The fact is, it is virtually impossible to make a crack-proof program. The closest we come is to tie it to hardware-protection scheme either via a dongle or propriety hardware. And then you bitch about that.
Software development of ANY kind is time consuming and EXPENSIVE. Now, ypou'll get guys like the developer of Reaper who appear to be doing it for the love of the game, but trust me, he's not making a living of of it. Companies that are out to make a profit and stay in business have real hard costs, and developer's, testers and marketing salaries to pay.
Now, mind you, I'm not such a hard-ass that I cannot see a point for using some cracks to evaluate an app, given the argument that there are few really good alternatives. (The same holds true for evaluating any soft product). However, my problem lies in that there creeps in a sense of entitlement in certain people who begin to feel that there is nothing wroing with outright piracy. This argument that "I wouldn't buy it anyways" is crap, because I believe that if it were important to you, you would. You somehow manage to get the scratch for your weed, right? It's is simply that it is too easy to pirate software and rationalize it away. And to me, piracy is a true bellweather of someone's moral compass precisely due to the fact that it is hard to enforce, and is thus a true measure of your integrity.
Minion said:
I"m not a person who uses Pirated software as I don"t need to as I get pretty much all the free software I want from my Old Job but I (Like everybody else) have an opinion.....
If software Companies don"t want there software to be Pirated then they have to put a real effort into protecting it from piracy by makeing it Uncrackable or so hard to crack that it isn"t worth the pirates effort to try to crack it, and if they put as much effort into developeing these protection schemes that they do into advertiseing or other aspects of there business then there would be a Lot less Piracy going on.....
If a Person leaves there Car doors open with there keys just sitting there in a Bad Part of town you can not really feel too bad that the person gets there car stolen, because if there car was that important to them they would have locked it.....
There isn"t much use in haveing laws if there is no enforcement or deterant and it seems that software companies don"t think piracy is a very big deal or they would do something about it like writeing protection schemes that are to difficult to Crack or just not worth there time to crack.....
Like in here is Canada Pot is "officially" Illegal but I wanted to I can walk down town and go to the Pot store and Buy as much weed as I want, and I don"t mean from a dealer I mean an actual Store with a Cash register and a Display case with a Variety of different types on display with a menu ect.....
You would think if the government really didn"t want poeple smokeing pot they would shut a place like this down and throw the owners in jail but this shop has been open for about 4 years now and does quite a hefty business....
Without a deterant and enforcment things like this happen and the poeple to blame are the ones who are supposed to be enforceing these laws and detering others from doing it...
Poeple will allways want to do what they can get away with and laws without enforcement and deterents are not Laws at all but mear suggestions....
The end of my rant.....
Cheers
Sorry, iTunes blows.