Thread: Big companies have no right to cry about piracy

Originally Posted by mail2sc

piracy of CDs shall be stopped.

That's right I think CDs will become obsolete soon and things will
just be distributed online in the future.

md

Originally Posted by masaladosa

I think J4k you are sort of mixing up two different issues because
you are upset, I understand it. The issue of the shops not helping you
is one of 'customer support'. You and your friend should write to the
higher ups of those shops and try to rectify their lousy attitudes.

I was upset with my own experience. The other guy is not my friend. It is a true story I read.

Anyway, the things is, you can write to higher authorities, and maybe it will take the desired effect. But that takes time. That guy in my story was unable to use his PSP, willing to pay for service but was denied the service. I am fully in support now that he is pirating. Hurt the guys where it hurts most - their pocket.

Originally Posted by saurav_k

It is the warranty and servicing problems why many people dont take chances with buying expensive stuff from abroad.

My entire HT was purchased abroad - so were my most gadgets. The stuff I wanted was not available in India then (90% of the time) or was insanely expensive.

Originally Posted by saurav_k

I am not advocating piracy, but my views are a bit different when it comes to buying/using everything original(softwares).
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I would prefer to donate a few dollars on the website of some good freeware rather than buying a shareware.

On the contrary, I prefer paying for shareware. Some of these companies are bringing in stuff that is promoting making life easier and simpler for us.

Originally Posted by newprouser

and without pirated stuff 3/4th of indians would have had nothing more than office n windows on their PC's for all these years.

You do mean ordinary windows on the walls, don't you?

Originally Posted by masaladosa

well, that is sort of debatable ;-). If you don't have a clause in your contract explicitly prohibiting unlocking the phone then I don't think it is piracy. Of course if it is in the contract and you are in the
contract period then I agree with you.

The retail cost of the device was £449.99. Under the one year contract, it was at a reduced price. The contract said that I must be with them for at least 12 months. That I abided. But they said that the device is sold by them for use on their network only (even after the contract period). As per their interpretation, breaking their protection is piracy.

In a recent case, the US court gave the decision that customers cannot break CSS & Macrovision protection on DVDs even for personal backup.

Originally Posted by just4kix

Anyway, the things is, you can write to higher authorities, and maybe it will take the desired effect.

IT really depends on your luck !

http://www.indiabroadband.net/relian....html#post7132 (Reliance 'Where CEO also cant help')

You do mean ordinary windows on the walls, don't you?

:lol:

My stance regarding this issue is that once in a while you use pirated stuff... I hardly know any of my my friend who don't download movies, I never saw anyone in my friends circle who buy original microsoft office(Specially when you're student)...

As far as big-guns are concerned they always make money, no matter you use pirated stuff or not.. They cry for CD/DVD Piracy, But they get all the profit from theatrical release only(As J4K said)... Same thing with music also...

I ain't saint, i used some of pirated stuff, But again i'm not alone everyone must've used pirated stuff, Including all of you :tt2:

Originally Posted by just4kix

Same goes for software too. It is easy for MS to sell Windows for $50 retail and still make money. They sell that to OEMs at that price anyway. So why are retail customers penalized?

talk about a lower price tag for winblows... and what about the fact that we have to spend 25-30$ an year on antivirus software for their faults. they couldn't even provide that for free!

it is just like not providing after sales services to a product.