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Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel
yep. i think one of the biggest problems with illegal filesharing is that customers are shown that they are considered indiscriminately as thieves and criminals by the very industries their purchases support, and they feel so disgusted by this treatment and the hoops they have to jump through to use the media they have legitimately purchased, that ultimately i suspect many of them turn to illegal downloads at least partly out of disillusionment and revolt.
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I've had a similar experience with software. I purchased an end-of-day stock charting program ($1005 AUD) only to find that every time I used it, I needed to be connected to the internet so it could verify I was a legitimate user.
Searching the internet for a work-around, I happened upon a crack for the program. After applying this crack to my legitimate program, I found I no longer needed to connect to the internet to use it!
So....am I now a legitimate user or a pirate?