Software piracy 'seen as normal'

[Lord_of_the_Dense]

Campaigns to persuade people to stop downloading pirated games or software from the internet are not working, a report suggests.

Two UK university researchers found that people did not see downloading copyrighted material as theft.

The findings are unwelcome news for the games industry, which says it loses more than £2bn annually from piracy.

The results of the government-funded study were previewed at a games conference in London.

Read entire story here.

[Ken]

I've only bought one peice of software this year.

I actually purchased a key for the newsreader "Newsbin".

It's for life (I don't have to pay again for upgrades), I get access to all BETAs/builds (which are released every couple of days), I get access to their forum in which the lead developer is actively participating, and I get e-mail support from the devs (if I wan't it, which I really don't need though).

It's a pretty solid application (for a newsreader anyway).

In my personal opinion, it's probably the best newsreader available for the Windows operating system.

Edited June 25, 2005 by Ken

[method77]

Two UK university researchers found that people did not see downloading copyrighted material as theft.

It's not theft. You can't steal something when there is no material involved. It's like calling someone a thief cause he stole your dream