nwfdailynews.com— A man who made millions of dollars selling illegal copies of computer programs was sentenced Friday to six years in prison in one of the largest U.S. software piracy cases.
Aug 25, 2006View in Crawl 4
Ferrer bought numerous airplanes, a fighter-jet simulator, a Lamborghini, a Hummer and other luxury vehicles with his profits. Rot in jail, you greedy, dumb ass.
@Gamer82987 you say that now but obviously your a gamer. As if you've never given friend $10 to give you a copy of game. Piracy kinda keeps prices down and makes development teams think beyond just selling game/software and support it (in most cases) offering patches, added content and bug fixes which in most cases pirated software is hard to do so and often annoying to update
@tweekster:You're 100% right. I have no idea why people are digging you down. I've been to prison before, and it's not nearly as bad as people say it is. There were individual shower stalls, and individual toilets (you could shower and do your private ____ in just that: private).There were books, magazines, and a TV with cable. The prison officials brought in movies every night. There's an exercise room, a basketball court and a lot of different people to talk to, most of whom were easy-going and nice. The only complaint I have is that while the food was fine tasting, it ran right through you. I ate better in prison than I do in college though, to be honest.
Interesting. What surprises me most is that people can find their way around online stores and auction sites but somehow fail to pick up that if they don't want to pay the software maker (for whatever reason) they could just go fetch it from the same places these ebay sellers get their copies. So buyers are being ripped off in a couple of ways; they don't get the genuine article if that's what they were after, and if they know or suspect it's a copy it's way overpriced. That's why, to address someone's earlier point, sellers of warez deserve to be treated like the friendless scum they are. Remember bombing a totally unauthorised auction for some open source software (pc into media centre or sthg). Good fun, so far as it goes. Trouble is you don't actually see them hit the ground, as of course basically nothing happens, the auction just ends. It's also a bit of a drag getting an account each time. You don't need to give credit card details to open a Dutch or French ebay account btw...
codeeAug 26, 2006
Ferrer bought numerous airplanes, a fighter-jet simulator, a Lamborghini, a Hummer and other luxury vehicles with his profits. Rot in jail, you greedy, dumb ass.
stever4376Aug 26, 2006
I'm sure he'll think about all the money he made every time he gets F'd in the A in prison.
gnimelfAug 26, 2006
@Gamer82987 you say that now but obviously your a gamer. As if you've never given friend $10 to give you a copy of game. Piracy kinda keeps prices down and makes development teams think beyond just selling game/software and support it (in most cases) offering patches, added content and bug fixes which in most cases pirated software is hard to do so and often annoying to update
Closed AccountAug 26, 2006
@tweekster:You're 100% right. I have no idea why people are digging you down. I've been to prison before, and it's not nearly as bad as people say it is. There were individual shower stalls, and individual toilets (you could shower and do your private ____ in just that: private).There were books, magazines, and a TV with cable. The prison officials brought in movies every night. There's an exercise room, a basketball court and a lot of different people to talk to, most of whom were easy-going and nice. The only complaint I have is that while the food was fine tasting, it ran right through you. I ate better in prison than I do in college though, to be honest.
Closed AccountAug 26, 2006
dumbass he shoulda ran when he hit a million
hakluytbeanAug 26, 2006
Interesting. What surprises me most is that people can find their way around online stores and auction sites but somehow fail to pick up that if they don't want to pay the software maker (for whatever reason) they could just go fetch it from the same places these ebay sellers get their copies. So buyers are being ripped off in a couple of ways; they don't get the genuine article if that's what they were after, and if they know or suspect it's a copy it's way overpriced. That's why, to address someone's earlier point, sellers of warez deserve to be treated like the friendless scum they are. Remember bombing a totally unauthorised auction for some open source software (pc into media centre or sthg). Good fun, so far as it goes. Trouble is you don't actually see them hit the ground, as of course basically nothing happens, the auction just ends. It's also a bit of a drag getting an account each time. You don't need to give credit card details to open a Dutch or French ebay account btw...
jamie3033Aug 27, 2006
all your warez are belong to Danny Ferrer
carzorstelatisAug 27, 2006
Reported as inaccurate. Copyright infringement is not piracy.