Re: WGA Does it work?

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The point is Kurt, people steal because they want to. The price is not a
part of the equation. People don't even send in $4.95 for a good little
shareware applet that they find to be useful and keep on their computer.

It's ingrained in the human psyche to get something for nothing. Then they
puff their chests out and claim they "beat the system". Well, some systems
fight back!

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Regards,

Richard Urban

aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard :-)

If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!


"kurttrail" <dontemailme@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Richard Urban wrote: /n
>> And if the price of Windows XP was dropped to $24.95 tomorrow there
>> would still be people stealing it - because they CAN!
>
> Your point?
>
> The piracy rate in the western world is lower today than in 1994, before
> almost every in the west had there own PCs, yet all of the colluding
> members of the BSA Trust does nothing but whine and complain about how
> piracy is gonna kill them. Name one member of the BSA that went out of
> business due to piracy of there product!
>
> Name ONE!
>
> In Asia, piracy is a big deal, but we in the west pay for their piracy in
> the price we pay for our software. No corporation is losing money due to
> piracy, and their paying customers pay twice. First they pay for piracy
> as part of the price of software, and then they pay again by having to
> jump through BS copy-protection hoops that don't stop piracy one iota, and
> all it really does is become another thing that can and will go wrong with
> software!
>
> People have been stealing since the beginning, and no technology is ever
> gonna stop it, so treating everybody, including the paying customer like a
> potential criminal is just an exercise in futility.
>
> --
> Peace!
> Kurt
> Self-anointed Moderator
> microscum.pubic.windowsexp.gonorrhea
> http://microscum.com/mscommunity
> "Trustworthy Computing" is only another example of an Oxymoron!
> "Produkt-Aktivierung macht frei!"
>
>


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