How to stop Piracy?

people would pay it money to write software.

Bye. Jasen

Yes, but copyright infringement is not theft.

Bye. Jasen

If you are talking about governments, the US is not a good example of treating good non-US nations around the world. The piracy problem is small issue comparing to their police role here and there.

I guess now is their time. Europian nations were stealing from the world for centuries (and still do in some ways). What would you do if you have 2 bilion of people, mainly poor? You will go to every vilige to shot down every small pirate factory when you can't offer something better?

Anyway, I don't try to defend the pirates, just the global picture is not that simple

Goran

That's an opinion at odds with the masses (of non-thieves, anyway).

Ken

Im a software dev John, but I cant agree there.

'Software' is not a physical thing - its a bunch of magnetic or optical dots on a disk. There is an infinite supply, in terms of being able to make as many copies as you like for little or no cost.

If somebody copies my software, I dont lose my copy.

It is very, very, *very* different to stealing a physical object from someone.

It's not about your physical copy of the software, it's about getting paid for your efforts. How do you provide yourself with food, clothing, and shelter if you are working for free? Or do you think all software should be written on a hobby basis by people who make their living doing something else during the day? (Like maybe at one of those jobs that's about to be outsourced!)

Just a thought...

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I would say you (US Gov.) mind your interests only (as anybody else). And I don't believe we here can change the attitude of he Chinese government. Their mind their own interests, and at the moment I guess piracy is not their main warry. They don't have big music or sw industry to protect. They have many unemployeed.

Buying pirate CDs would not concerning me so much. Big producers are the problem. If somebody opens a shop near you and you can get there cheap software, is not you the one that makes the crime.

I know.

Goran

You know how it works. By waving some papers with a bunch of "zero invention height" patents on them, the poor are forced to pay big bucks for trivial useless junk. Since the rate of selling them junk is greater that they can pay for, they quickly accomodate a big debt.

Rene

Actually, it's more like what Jesus did, since he made a whole bunch of copies of fish and gave them away for free. And who wouldn't want to be more like Jesus?

Nice!

If you head down this path of reasoning, it seems to me it should follow that -- if piracy is OK -- it's also OK to "partially" steal anything you want from Wal*Mart by deducting any profit they would have otherwise made from selling that product.

There's nothing wrong with companies being paid to design software and/or hardware and then selling it for the cost of the copies -- which approaches zero in the case of software --, but there's also nothing wrong with a business model that says you want to make a profit on each and every copy sold, regardless of the price of copying.

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Of course there's nothing wrong. It's just a perfectly legal confidence trick. Nothing to do with stealing anything.. It's just a very minor part of the Capitalist System. You vote for it and that's what you get. Just carry on as usual without thinking of complaining. There's nobody there to complain to anyway. You set of poor, juvenile, deprived, innocent suckers! =======================================

He had to make the fish. The bible says: "Man shall not live by bread alone."

Thus speaks Reg "The Demented One" Edwards ;-)

...Jim Thompson