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monkofevil

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  1. I still do pirate things like Photoshop and Flash, because while I'd never buy them for my own use, I need them for uni projects here and there.

    Student's licenses for those apps are still too expensive for me to consider buying them for some stuff that I'm required to do occasionally.

    Tell it like it is.

  2. But whatever. I don't see the market for physical media lasting that much longer, which means that a used market probably won't exist either.

    Consoles will have physical media for a long while yet. It's far too easy to make patches for purely digital copies of games, I mean, look at steam and steambuster.

    This of course, doesn't take into account that new consoles can be modded to run burned copies of disks, without the use of modchips or the like, (eg. Xbox 360) which is a console companies biggest fear.

  3. I know that piracy of software is a crime, and wrong morally. I will admit that it's pretty easy to just use open source programs such as reaper, vlc, etc... I still pirate the occasional CD or artist, far fewer movies, (but I DO copy netflix disks), and the major pieces of software. This is a matter of conveniece, I am under no illusion that this is right, or justified, and anyone who does is completely deluded, or simply wanting an excuse to feel good about what they are doing.

    In the end, there is no "right" to pirating something. If you are comfortable stealing, (be it digital or otherwise) I am in no way obliged to stop you. Considering how little it actually effects the company in question, I would say that piracy is not AS bad as stealing. But that doesn't make it right. As I said, it's a matter of comfortable convenience. I know what my final reckoning will be, and I know that eventually I'll get the money and begin to repay artists and companies for their hard work, that is one of the more gratifying feelings in the world.

  4. Holy cow!

    Teem Rockit, ftw!

    Pretty cool ,it was one of my favorite songs from the original 3 games. I really can't wait for the final album.

    Speaking of which,

    Has anyone listened to "voices of the lifestream"?

    I really liked it.

    Yeah, good luck with the album, I'm looking forward to it.

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