How do you feel about Windows piracy?

[Leo Mauler]

There's a Britcom called "The IT Crowd" about a small
IT department in a huge British corporation: two
socially-inept but technologically brilliant guys; one
just plain weird guy who lives in the server room and
only comes out at night; and their manager who is a
people person, knows almost nothing about computers,
but who is perfectly willing to accept that she
doesn't know anything about computers.  

They just finished their second season, and the DVD
for the second season came out October 1st.  The fact
that the DVDs are only available for Region 2 is
probably irrelevant for any IT person who wants to
watch the DVDs, and certainly not a good enough reason
for IT people to not watch this show.

Anyway, during Season 2 a show opened with an
"Anti-Piracy" Ad which is just priceless.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTbX1aMajow

--- feba thatl <febaen at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm curious as to what some of you think of 
> Windows piracy. Do you think it's alright if 
> it's only done to run software that only works 
> on Windows due to MS's monopolistic tactics? Do 
> you think it's alright if it replaces the 
> purchase of a legit copy, as it hurt's MS's
> profit margin? Do you think it's always bad? Do 
> you think that software should always be free 
> anyway?  Are your decisions about this based on 
> law or morals?
> 
> Personally, I don't pirate software anymore, and 
> it pisses me off to see my friends downloading 
> *yet another copy of windows* to reinstall with
> *again*, instead of trying linux, but that's 
> more about their lack of a brain than it
> is piracy.


       
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