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May. 7th, 2005 09:21 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
deathboysorry, who's the sad fuck here?
some of the biggest and best hacker/crackers of all time (DrinkorDie crew) or the prosecution that likens them, to Jack Sparrow, "night-time tappers of keyboards"
"You might feel that their lives are rather sad, living as they do for very large parts of their days and nights in a virtual world, in front of a computer monitor, cocooned from existence."
Demagogue prosecution, anyone?
Burn the geeks! Burn the geeks!
Never mind their actual crimes - these people don't shower much, watch CSI and have no girlfriends - YOU MUST CONVICT!
*pours bottle of gin over floppy disk* - this one's for the DoD crew! *sniff*
some of the biggest and best hacker/crackers of all time (DrinkorDie crew) or the prosecution that likens them, to Jack Sparrow, "night-time tappers of keyboards"
"You might feel that their lives are rather sad, living as they do for very large parts of their days and nights in a virtual world, in front of a computer monitor, cocooned from existence."
Demagogue prosecution, anyone?
Burn the geeks! Burn the geeks!
Never mind their actual crimes - these people don't shower much, watch CSI and have no girlfriends - YOU MUST CONVICT!
*pours bottle of gin over floppy disk* - this one's for the DoD crew! *sniff*
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Date: 2005-05-07 09:52 am (UTC)I'll be all right then as I have two girl friends.
The thing about harsh copyright protection and enforcement is that it assumes you have a monopoly on the market.
I could use a pirate version of product A at home. This will not hurt the manufacturer of product A since it is so expensive I'll never buy it anyway. But I like A so much that when I use it at work I pay for it. The company got a sale. If I couldn't use product A I'd use something else. The company still hasn't got any money from me personally but they've lost the business sale too.
If there's an alternative then stopping someone using your product just means they go and use someone else's. In this world of open source and the like, someone else's may be free.