[Twinkie]

Do you use warez or do you feel it is unethical? How do you download your cracks? What The fight goes on between software vendors and crackers which grant unauthorized and illegal access to expensive and overprice software like Photoshop. I personally use them and get them from crack sites. Don't list site were you get them from, only how you get it. No actual links should be posted How do you feel about cracking in general?

~Twinkie

[Zangetsu]

oke ill be honest i do use warez sites to find apps, games, music etc who doesnt ?
politics talk about stopping piracy, bah, they cant stop it, and they'll never will unless they shut down the internet

[tnl2k7]

Originally Posted by Zangetsu

oke ill be honest i do use warez sites to find apps, games, music etc who doesnt ?
politics talk about stopping piracy, bah, they cant stop it, and they'll never will unless they shut down the internet

Which will never happen .

-Luke.

[Armacci Design]

I thought we couldn't talk about illegal content on here. Not trying to blow a whistle on you or anything - just maybe check that out since this is a sensitive issue.

As far as the topic itself, I pay for all my software.

[AllProsNoCons]

Originally Posted by Zangetsu

oke ill be honest i do use warez sites to find apps, games, music etc who doesnt ?
politics talk about stopping piracy, bah, they cant stop it, and they'll never will unless they shut down the internet

QFT

I use warez sites, and I've run a few...

I also use uTorrent to get things like movies software and games.

[Spartan Erik]

Who doesn't? Honestly us college students can't afford to shell out hundreds of bucks on Office and other programs necessary for school. Sure we could all use Wordpad, but teachers want assignments emailed in .doc form

All software will be free one day, it's just inevitable. Gotta put ads in software to get the money.

[tcmstr134]

Ill be quite honest. I use Cracks, and Warez. As a student, I cant afford to be shelling out $1,000 for Photoshop, which is required in my Graphic Design Class. If Companies were to be SMART, and lower the price, then I would pay for them, but since they are greedy, and want all that money for ONE copy, I figure they deserve to lose the business.

[kirtik]

If you're in the UK, (or ireland) http://software4students.co.uk is a good site. £30 for office 07? :o

Most software companies like M$ and Autodesk have student schemes for uber cheap copies of their software.

I only use torrenting as a last resort. If I go around looking for something I want to give my money for and I can't find it, they don't deserve my money. ^_^

[scorch94]

Originally Posted by Spartan Erik

Who doesn't? Honestly us college students can't afford to shell out hundreds of bucks on Office and other programs necessary for school. Sure we could all use Wordpad, but teachers want assignments emailed in .doc form

All software will be free one day, it's just inevitable. Gotta put ads in software to get the money.

I think I won't agree on that one. What will programmers live of? Big corporations like Adobe won't let it happen. How? By giving best software on market... payed though. I guess every cent spent on Photoshop is worth of it. Alas, I don't have money to buy it hence I download it
As you've mentioned, students don't have money for that kind of luxury.
Ads in software? I guess someone would rather pay than watch those sillies in their windows. Believe me, big companies will give money for a top quality software. It's their tool, and without tool -- there's no business.

There will always be payed and free software

[Armacci Design]

If all software was completely free, what motivation would exist for making it? Sure, you'd get the few people that thought it was their duty do "do something for the good of the internet," but do you seriously expect that software packages like Photoshop and Maya especially will come out of purely altruistic means? I personally don't think so.