Comments on: How Can We Wipe out Piracy?

By: David Crandall

David Crandall — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 09:27:32 +0000

One is unwilling to save up $3,000 for new software…but one would be willing to pay $10,000-$30,000 for a vehicle that looks cool and has fancy, yet NEEDLESS junk when you can get a USED car for 10% of the cost…that seems silly.

If you pirate, why don’t you carjack, too? Pirates are so fond of taking away from hard working people like software developers, why not take away from motor vehicle manufacturers as well?

Gah, it’s sick.

By: theemperor

theemperor — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 00:26:59 +0000

theres only one way to stop piracy…Shut Down the INTERNET!!!

By: six

six — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 18:25:28 +0000

Chris, you really make me laugh.

If everyone that pirated, were to write software blogs to get it free – the internet would be close to breaking point with crap.

Piracy is here to stay, wether you like it or not.

You DO know, that Apple’s Logic Pro used to be UNCRACKABLE – via a dongle. The dongle contained part of the actual software and was HEAVILY encrypted.

Why do you think Apple GOT RID OF IT ? And then lowered its price by 2/3rds?

Piracy is actually quite good them. It increases the user base by a huge amount – it helps generate even more momentum for the brand.

And if piracy is so bad, then why is there more software then ever being released? The Mac platform NEVER had it as good as we do now….

You will never stop piracy, but I think the only way to keep it at its present levels is for companies to put more attention on customer value and service.
Far to often, the pirated version of a piece of software is *better* than the legit retail – as it has had any crippling anti copy/DRM removed.

Cheers,

By: Eric Cartman

Eric Cartman — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 14:36:18 +0000

There is only one way to stop piracy of movies, music, books, software, Microsoft, games etc.

Close peoples internet connection down that engage in it. People can get a letter of warning that if they don’t stop they will lose the internet connection.

By: Steve Jared

Steve Jared — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 15:46:53 +0000

As a composer-pianist who stayed in music school til 27 and took piano lessons for 30 years I take issue with those who think this investment should be worth nothing.
I’ll release my cds through my own company and avoid the musicombine.

By: Chris Luckenbaugh

Chris Luckenbaugh — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 04:51:42 +0000

copyright violations, piracy ect needs to be better enforced! that will certainly decrease the amount of piracy, remember piracy is 100% stealing.

By: Emperor_Zot

Emperor_Zot — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 07:16:01 +0000

Mr. Piirillo,
If You’ve Read The Copyright Bylaws Which I don’t Think You Did In Complete. You Would Know That When Someone Owns A Dvd They’ve Already Purchased They Are Allowed By The Copyright Bylaws Allowed To Make “One” Thats “1″ Backup For Personal Use. Once The Original Medium Is Sold/Given Away Said Party Must Destroy The Copy Or They Will Have Violated The Copyright Bylaws. Please Before You Post Something Please Make Sure You Have All Your Facts Straight. I Have Friend Who Is An FBI Agent And Cleared This Up With Him, Copying Media You Already Is Legal!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By: borat

borat — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 02:24:23 +0000

i agree with mattb4rd mainly because ninjas can do almost anything

By: Jeff Norris

Jeff Norris — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 23:46:49 +0000

The community needs to support the laws! Plain and simple don’t support piracy in any format, and allow law enforcement to work.

By: Brandon

Brandon — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 23:06:03 +0000

Yeah, just keep giving the rich more and more.
SOUNDS GREAT YOU FAGGOT.

By: E2001

E2001 — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 11:17:04 +0000

Just to clarify… Everything in western civilization is stolen, Okay! EVERYTHING! The corporations send in the troops to conquer the natives; secure the land; enslave the people; gather the resources; and sell it back for profit. And here YOU sit, crying for the musicians (most of whom sing about how bad is SUCKS living in western society) because somebody is getting their music for free! Take it from a musician: You people need to WAKE UP!

By: Christoph

Christoph — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 04:40:40 +0000

“1. Don’t push for more severe copyright laws that only serve the purpose of controlling distribution and availability. Copyright is about protecting visual, audio or written content producers from getting booted out of their share of business made with what they created, it’s not meant and never was meant as a tool to control distribution.”

You’re actually totally, completely wrong. 180° backward and since this is your first point, it invalidates your position.

By: E2001

E2001 — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 19:15:23 +0000

Hey, instead of crying about who might be illegally downloading Hanna Montana’s latest single; how about we put a stop to the asshole who’s trying to steal all of Iraq’s oil? Geesh… You people really need to learn what thievery is!

By: Nash

Nash — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 16:51:14 +0000

Many people keep saying that piracy cannot be eradicated – This is just wordplay. Of course , no phenomenon can be completely stopped-there are always outliers in every population. It is mathematically impossible to completely stop anything, all we can do is make it extremely unlikely.

It is the same with crime prevention, geopolitics and any other process that involves a large number of agents. We can’t stop it, but the accepted threshold according to statisticians is that if the likeliness of something occuring is 2-3 sigma away from the population mean, which translates to a roughly 0-5% chance of occuring, the process is considered effectively curtailed.

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 14:31:11 +0000

Actually I think that piracy exists only because it is so easy to do and so hard to get caught thanks to all the file sharing programs like Limewire, Ares, and so on. And who can forget Napster back in the day. Napster was the one who started the trend. Its going to be hard to get rid of piracy, with all these P2P programs around.