Another Napster?

Ennia · Post by **Ennia** » May 27, 2005, 4:50 pm

http://money.cnn.com/2005/05/25/technology/piracy/

Can't say I'm surprised. Stealing is stealing, doesn't matter if it's music or movies.

Aslanna · Post by **Aslanna** » May 27, 2005, 5:11 pm

BitTorrent is a legitimate technology. But unlike other common file-sharing software like Grokster and Kazaa, it does not have a central location or a company behind it.

Given BitTorrent's decentralized nature, it's difficult to limit piracy using the technology. When one BitTorrent site goes off-line, another pops up to take its place.

So no.. Not another Napster.

Fash · Post by **Fash** » May 28, 2005, 3:54 am

piracy is an old fire that will never be extinguished....

back in the days of the C64... there was a bootleg hardware clip to break protection for different games, and people shared boxes of disks.. we had 2 or 3 giant cases of C64 software...

pretty much the first PC program, MS BASIC, was pirated in tape format.. and sent bill gates into a rage.. no protection method for offline software has ever been secure against it.

paying for software is a wonderful thing, when you can afford it... but piracy is one of the single most important avenues of education, and something which must be protected.

Winnow · Post by **Winnow** » May 28, 2005, 4:22 am

Fash wrote:piracy is an old fire that will never be extinguished....

back in the days of the C64... there was a bootleg hardware clip to break protection for different games, and people shared boxes of disks.. we had 2 or 3 giant cases of C64 software...

I had disk cloning software for the C-64 that took 30 minutes to copy the equivalent of about 250kb. And then came along "Fast-Hack'em disk nibbler (Basement Boys Software) which copied 250kb in the blistering time of 5 minutes. If Fast Hack'em didn't work, you'd have to break out Kracker Jax.

Had to defeat the Intentional Disk Errors, Fat Tracks, Half Tracks, Extra Tracks, Header and Tail gaps!

Fun times.

Zaelath · Post by **Zaelath** » May 28, 2005, 4:48 am

It's all laughable anyway, Star Wars will still make a fortune at the box office.

I had a friend who pirated software commercially in Pakistan (wasn't even a copyright law there, he had his full name and phone number in Karachi on all his cracks) and the idea that they lost retail sales of a game that cost a month's salary in that market is rediculous in the extreme, but that's what they always claimed.

Aslanna · Post by **Aslanna** » May 28, 2005, 5:00 am

Hadn't head Basement Boys in awhile...

Niffoni · Post by **Niffoni** » May 28, 2005, 11:24 am

Oh noes! Now how will criminals who are too pussy and lazy to actually mug people going to get stuff for free?

Zaelath · Post by **Zaelath** » May 28, 2005, 11:33 am

Niffoni wrote:Oh noes! Now how will criminals who are too pussy and lazy to actually mug people going to get stuff for free?

FUK U HITLER!

kyoukan · Post by **kyoukan** » May 28, 2005, 2:54 pm

Fash wrote:paying for software is a wonderful thing, when you can afford it... but piracy is one of the single most important avenues of education, and something which must be protected.

yes, grabbing illegal copies of star wars episode 3 and half life 2 should definitely be protected.

Kelshara · Post by **Kelshara** » May 28, 2005, 8:05 pm

They can't get rid of piracy. If they had half a brain they would stop fighting it with the law and rather set up their own system of paying a small amount for the downloads. And they look incredibly stupid to the average person when they claim it is the deat of entertainment industry when they pay their actors a gazillion dollars and movies earn more money on opening day than quite a few national budgets.

Kylere · Post by **Kylere** » May 28, 2005, 9:19 pm

I always used Maverick with the C64 heh

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