The companies you quote are global virtual monopolies.
As the networked/computerised World grows exponentially year by year -
Windows Ultimate Operating System should be selling for $20
Adobe CS4 $25
It's sheer greed by the few and abuse of a privileged Global position that the people have put them in.
That's the bottom line!
Just to add to neo101s post there about greed etc I decided to reinstall GTA 4 before and all went well until I tried to open my games for windows live with it so I could play online.
Now because it was my fourth install with the same game, which I paid £30 for by the way, it now say's I have to purchase ANOTHER key to be able to do so, WTF, I have already paid good money for that game and now they want to screw more out of me for a game I already bought. Who's the theif now? They have basically took the game back off me and told me to buy it again.
Come on people where is the fairness in that, they have basically stole my game yet have the audacity to accuse people of stealing their stuff.
But I suppose you will just agree with them.
By the way it's not rockstar who are preventing me playing it because I can still play single player but MS wants its own £30 now for me to play on-line.
But that'll be ok with all you wont it.
Last edited by RST101; 09 Mar 2010 at 19:53.
What does that mean exactly?
We are not on about walking in stores and stealing though are we? We are on about COPYRIGHT INFRINGMENT which unless done commercially falls under civil law not criminal law therefore can not be classed as theft(by UK law). Don't you get it?
Have you never recorded nothing no? If you have does that make you a thief?
Just because I don't agree with the cooperation side of it doesn't make me a thief does it?
Also, when you say you is it me you refer to or?
Yes I have recorded tv shows its actually illegal here and the majority of the Commonwealth inc the US.
You forget the majority are from different country's and its classed as theft just about everywhere.
Quick pic took from gta 4 as I just tried to log in. Time and date visible.
Hope it's visible, sorry if it isn't.
Now is it right to take yet more money from an average joe to feed the billionaire fat cats, I have paid for it once and now they want more money.
But I'm in the wrong, right?
But according to the logic in this thread I would be a thief if I were to use a crack.
I don't expect an answer from the people in this thread who are backing the cooperations about whether I should have to pay again to play MY game, it's only right as they own the copyright so can do what they please can't they.
RST101 i agree with you in principle, morally it is wrong, unfortunately, if you were to challenge it, you would lose, the fact of the matter is, that these big companies have the lawmakers in their pockets, and things will not change any time soon,
of course with the advent of the digital britain report, soon we will all be assumed to be pirates until proved otherwise, and can have our internet access cut off if we're even suspected,
welcome to the birthplace of free speech and democracy....
Of course I would lose!! That's the very reason piracy exists in the first place, to combat the corrupt and those that pay off the law!
Most of these on the forums seem brain washed too, that's why it continues like it does.
Maybe they don't mind paying for a game a couple of times but I sure as hell do.
Need to grow some gonads people!
Have you tried contacting microsoft to get it to activate? Windows will do the same thing after a few activations, but you can call and get it activated over the phone.
