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Originally Posted by HarryT
No, because I was brought up in the 1960s to believe in "right and wrong", and using something without paying for it
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...that you are adjusting your language to be more...in line with what the situation requires for honest debate.
I admire this. Its a rare thing on the 'net.
So let me ask you this: is using a book in a library...or listening to a cd...or having someone sing a song to you...
AH! But don't jump in yet
When someone snags a download of a copy of something off the web...are they *really* getting the same thing someone bought is?
Like with the software we do...if you have a problem...you are on your own. Don't write. Don't call. Good Luck and God Bless. You let me know how that works out.
If they install a crack that sends their machine to Valhalla...*tee-hee*
Believe me...what you create...especially in a pure artistic sense...a bit less so in the Art and Science of Coding...is worth FAR MORE to you than it is to anyone else.
In the digital realm, it is our version, really, when you look at it for what it is, objectively and unemotionally, our version of "the cost of doing business".
Everyone has to deal with these loses in one way or another. For folks that are all digital, the benefits of reduced production and manufacturing generally make it still a net sum game.
Or it certainly seems that way as I pat my full belly, lick my lips after enjoying a nice Gran Marnier while typing this back to you, reading it on my gorgeous Cinema Display HD
Ok, so, I don't have a manservant to actually *bring* the Gran *to* me...but I'm alright nonetheless.