arstechnica.com— Chinese police and the FBI worked together to take down two Chinese piracy groups recently, which they credit with being in possession of counterfeit software valued at half a billion dollars.
Jul 24, 2007View in Crawl 4
So Digg regularly jizzes over the altar of piracy, and the names Pirate Bay and Torrent are given near-holy status. But once China gets involved, suddenly piracy is bad and those "damn yellowskins are stealing OUR software." How do you even think the software gets into the Pirate Bay? High-level distributors cracking and posting this software onto distro sites.
Calculating retail price is stupid. One should calculate lost sales which is probably 1% of the figure since without piracy no one would be using commercial software. most low income countries simply can't afford it. They'd be using open source if they didn't have piracy. So the open source movement should definitely go out and fight piracy.
tabrisJul 25, 2007
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sirlancelot88Jul 25, 2007
So Digg regularly jizzes over the altar of piracy, and the names Pirate Bay and Torrent are given near-holy status. But once China gets involved, suddenly piracy is bad and those "damn yellowskins are stealing OUR software." How do you even think the software gets into the Pirate Bay? High-level distributors cracking and posting this software onto distro sites.
mooferJul 26, 2007
Nobody likes a d**kh**d either.How is my post a spam?
sahmed001Jul 26, 2007
Calculating retail price is stupid. One should calculate lost sales which is probably 1% of the figure since without piracy no one would be using commercial software. most low income countries simply can't afford it. They'd be using open source if they didn't have piracy. So the open source movement should definitely go out and fight piracy.
pabloescobar666Jul 26, 2007
This is dumb. Pirated software does not cost anything more than the media they are stored in.
clyde2801Jul 26, 2007
Curse you, chinese ninjas!