they'll get their money back at the end of the year...

also, for us Canadians pirating is completely legal so stealing payware is more of a moral question

Quote:


Well... at least you are acknowledging that it is stealing.  So that's a start, I guess.  So it is "only" a moral question......... that's a relief.  I thought it was an "important" issue  .

So...... how do you justify to yourself (as your comments seem to say here) the overt theft of someone else's property as well as the public advocacy of such acts?

concerned,

................john

Idea..

When you install a payware plane can't they do it so that you have to fill in a password which can be verified with an IP adress or some sort? so IP and password are related to eachother? DSL has one IP doesn't it? and I can't really Imagine a 56k user dloading a 50+ mb plane or something like it..

I know FSpassengers has a way of tracking users. The program will be disabled from what i can tell if too many differant IP's register the program with the same name and password.

Well let us now examine this from another prespective. I have LimeWire PRO, and pay the $20 monthly fee, so if I use it to download music, am I stealing, because the way I see it it is no different than buying the tracks from iTunes.  I personally think that if I used Limewire to get a movie, or a piece of software then I would be stealing, but I dont consider downloading music stealing.

Oh also to clearify a bit. The laws in Canada pretaining to file shareing are that downloading is leagle, however hosting, or uploading files is illeagle. The idea is that people will sotp downloading if there is nowhere to get material from, however Canadians got smart, and use American P2P's and just disable the shareing function, so they are perfectly in the law. (see listing to public radio pays off).

Cheers
Cameron

Folks, I hate to tell you this, but piracy in FS is a LOT more widespread than you think.  While looking for some Corsair combat footage, I came across one site that had 6 pages of bootleg FS downloads, from pretty much every major builder out there, including Aerosoft, Real Air, Lago, and Abacus....

Unfortunately, piracy is quickly becoming part of the cost of doing business in software.  Some people think that just  because you can do something, you MUST do something and act on impulse without thinking of the moral consequence of their actions.  You need to remember that just because it's there, it doesn't mean you HAVE to take the stuff. 

Quote:


Selective locking - but we will lock you from expressing your opinion on wallpaper glue drying ....