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i have my own ethicical grounding.

i feel that those who screw me over deserve to get screwed over, be it a person or company.

as such i dont feel bad using cracked software from companys that screwed me over, on the other hand i OWN some apps like NERO because they never screwed me over.

MS,VUG,Atari and some other companys have earned my hate, the ammount of crap ms as put me thru as a pc owner and tech more then justifys my aquiering their software free(tho i can leigaly get any of it i like really) this is my ethics in acction.

however if you do me a solid, i will do you a solid, nero has sold 50+ ultra copys thanks to me telling people its the best burning app to get.

i am on 2 diffrent MSDN accounts for sure possably a 3rd one still as well, i have given a few friends "trial" copys of windows because they couldnt afford another pro copy for various reasions.

vug and atari on the other hand, i hate them, they screwed me and many of my friends on game after game, and as such, well they earned a special kind of HATE from me :)
 
i have a real copy of nero,and alcohol120%.quite a few actually.

i dont really care either way if people wanna use cracked windows,for me i prefer a real os and run my hooky stuff on it.at least then i know the os is safe and upto date 'n' all.

i am a kinda try b4 i buy person,if i try summat and i like it and it is useful i will buy it.

my alcohol will run most hookey games from an image,my mates wont.i think that is the advantage of buying it.
 
hehe, he needs to update to a newer version ;)

and i dont use alch120%, i use daemontools, i find it a better option, less hassle then using alch image drives, and i havent ever had an app black flag dt4.x but i have had a good number of games refuse to play because alch was INSTALLED, no image drives running or insalled from it, they saw i had alch120 and refused to work till i uninstalled it.....stupid or what!!!!
 
I agree with Ashen. For example, games like CS:Source are bug-less and have great customer service IMHO, hence, buy it. On the other hand, games like Bf2 are full of bugs and need a 700mb patch to allow online play. I find that a little stupid, so to all the people the cracked BF2, good on ya's :p (just an example...)
 
Pinchy said:
I agree with Ashen. For example, games like CS:Source are bug-less and have great customer service IMHO, hence, buy it. On the other hand, games like Bf2 are full of bugs and need a 700mb patch to allow online play. I find that a little stupid, so to all the people the cracked BF2, good on ya's :p (just an example...)
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i wouldnt call source bugless...just less annoying
they update it all the time because they have a good team and they actually fix things
EXCEPT the friends network...they never get that working right lol
 
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i wouldnt call source bugless...just less annoying
they update it all the time because they have a good team and they actually fix things
EXCEPT the friends network...they never get that working right lol
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yeah true, not bugless, no software is totally bugless :p BUT they have developed their engine to allow for a wide audience. Like common, a game with graphics like source running on a 2Ghz P4 with 512MB RAM and an MX440...no other 'new' game can do that without lag :p

+ their support owns (from my experience)
 
haha, acctualy most crackers buy the game then crack it to remove cd checks and such, so in YOUR ethical view we are WORSE then they are!!!
 
Well has anyone posted the torrent yet?
 
i use rapidshare too.

imo torrent eats it in piles.
 
i have a rapid ac,no wait time,100mb takes less than two mins.
 
you just need an acct on a good torrent site or 2 ;) mainstream ones (publik sites) suck because most ppl hit and run or cap upload very low(this also lowers their download speed tho as well ;) )

torrents can be VERY fast, given you know where to get the best ones, infact i may upload a leigal one from an anime fansub tracker i use for yall to try :)

Tips for using torrents, dont use bitcommet, many people block it because its an abusive cheating client(its crap)

utorrent is the best windows torrent client to use, very small, low mem use, fast, full fetured.

if ur on a network with a router firewall put your system in DMZ for best download speeds.

infact here are 3 current torrents

try them out, remmber it takes torrents a few min to get up to full speed due to having to connect to peers :)

cap ur upload to 1/2 ur real max upload for best results :)
 
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It's that time again, when it moves from academic discussion into warez it can mean only one thing... Yup, closed.
 
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