Thread: Are 'warez' really theft?
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Old 12-01-2004, 10:27   #53
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Re: Are 'warez' really theft?
If you are a developer it all depends on what you want out of the programs/games that you have written, do you want money, or do you want your software to be used by as many people as possible.

As I have said before in a previous post, I intend to purchase or legally obtain every piece of software that I have installed on my computer equipment, however if I had not used p2p/warez in the past, some of these programs I would now not be buying.

Trail software is all well and good, but the trail periods are seldom long enough, take a complex bit of software such as Dreamweaver MX or Photoshop, they require time to learn or adapt, or are supplied with reduced functionality.

As Timewarrior2001 points out, developers do not get a very high percentage of profits per game at all, so maybe the answer is for the publishers to make a smaller profit on the software and reduce the cost of it, that way you get more legal software, less p2p/warez usages, and more profits/royalties for the publishers/depelopers.

Jon
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