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Don't Copy Dat Floppy!

PostPosted: Fri Feb 13, 2004 9:39 pm
by Link Antilles
That's just priceless. ;)

Clicky!

PostPosted: Fri Feb 13, 2004 9:42 pm
by glitch1501
that dancing man scared me...

PostPosted: Sat Feb 14, 2004 6:52 am
by cbwing0
I've seen this before, but I think I'll watch it again. ;)

I do have one question, though: does anyone actually buy multiple copies of a piece of software for each computer in their own home?

PostPosted: Sat Feb 14, 2004 11:48 am
by madphilb
Companies do.... esp. if they don't want a visit from the piracy police.

I think software licences have changed, for some things anyway. That's the final answer on what you can do with the software.

PostPosted: Sat Feb 14, 2004 12:43 pm
by cbwing0
I see...I heard on Tech TV that companies don't care if you make 2-3 for home use, although they will get suspicious if you start having more than that.

PostPosted: Sat Feb 14, 2004 5:07 pm
by Bobtheduck
"one program on one computer"

Yet more reason that consoles are better for games... I can take a small DVD to my friend's house, instead of a heavy computer and monitor...

PostPosted: Sat Feb 14, 2004 5:29 pm
by Saint Kevin
I can't believe I watched more than 2 minutes of that. Awful.

PostPosted: Sat Feb 14, 2004 6:27 pm
by Straylight
That was hilarious :D

PostPosted: Sat Feb 14, 2004 7:48 pm
by shooraijin
Ewww, Windows Media. Anyone converted this to a more sensible format? ^^

PostPosted: Sat Feb 14, 2004 9:07 pm
by madphilb
cbwing0 wrote:I see...I heard on Tech TV that companies don't care if you make 2-3 for home use, although they will get suspicious if you start having more than that.

This is generally considered acceptable.

Note that some software companies will allow this as part of their licence agreement (and if you've ever read those things, some of them make you promise to do some really stupid things... i.e. - some have told you you can't review or write about the software.)

Bobtheduck wrote:"one program on one computer"

Yet more reason that consoles are better for games... I can take a small DVD to my friend's house, instead of a heavy computer and monitor...

This is where you use the "book" rule for software, but since most people don't have enough morals not to pirate in the first place it really doesn't matter.

The "booK" rule works like this: You treat the software like a book, I loan the book to you, I can't be reading the book while you have it... you still leave the software installed (games, etc) but you don't run it till you get the "book" back (at which point the person you loaned it to stops using it).

This like the above rule of multiple copies on your home personal machines is generally considered acceptable practice.

shooraijin wrote:Ewww, Windows Media. Anyone converted this to a more sensible format?

This is what I'm saying.... go shooby, go shooby, go shooby :thumb:

PostPosted: Sun Feb 15, 2004 8:32 pm
by Fsiphskilm
[quote="shooraijin"]Ew