Pirated software ftp

The money that made from selling games goes to only one thing: creating bigger and better games. These are B grade software companies. To them, computer games are more of a commodity item.

They sell cheap and make it up in volume. But you never see a good quality product coming out of one of these places. The selling of video games competes with most other forms of entertainment. If you compare the dollars per hour that you spend going to a movie to the dollars per hour that you spend playing games, games are an incredible deal.

You've got to be kidding, Chris. But hey, wait, maybe that's the future for those Video Gaming Centers! If only you could multiplay WC]I[!!

Interactive theatres! Gasp, Origin! Movie studios don't need to maintain a technical support stuff to do a post sale product support - how often did you call Paramount and complained that their movie doesn't work in your VCR?

All of this, of course, is moot. Justifying piracy on the grounds of software being too expensive is like justifying grand theft auto on the grounds of cars being too expensive. If you want to pirate, pirate You're a thief, pure and simple. Now I really have to disagree. What makes a price reasonable or not for a particular individual is whether or not the product is worth that much to him -- and that's all.

He decides whether to buy product A by comparing the value he would get out of it to competing product B -- or to some other possible use for his money.

He doesn't need to pour over the developer's financial records or inquire into the cost of producing the product. Suppose the developer had been less efficient in producing the product, so that it's cost of production had been twice as much while the end product remained the same.

Does the consumer care? No, it's the same product in either case and has the same value to him. And, if the developer knows what he's doing when he prices it, it will have the same price in either case. If he tries to raise the price in an attempt to make up for the additional costs he'll only hurt himself even more by losing sales. Now, it may be that in the first case the more efficient producer can take advantage of his efficiency by lowering the price.

His less efficient competitors won't be able to absorb the lost revenues. So in that way cost of production can indirectly influence the product's price, but the point remains that there are only two things that the consumer needs to consider in deciding "Is it worth it? No, in the case of successful developers the profit also goes toward making them rich: Lamborghinis, custom-built houses with secret passages, and life's other necessities.

The kind that doesn't kill women or children, you dolt! Never coming, really sob! Pirate ftp-sites? Eirik Amundsen. Reply to author. Report message as abuse. Show original message. Either email addresses are anonymous for this group or you need the view member email addresses permission to view the original message. Does pirate-ftp sites exist??

Erik Yeager. This is the response of a reader of this group. By calling somebody names you don't solve the problem of pirate sites. So, no I don't know pirate sites. Better you buy your 'warez' in a store. That way the developers can earn some money to develop more great games. Robert B. Eirik Amundsen eir William Wright. Richard Ward. Harlan Hilman. Barry Clarke. In article bjMlkK7P William Judson Ready. David Michael Palsen.

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You also agree to the Terms of Use and acknowledge the data collection and usage practices outlined in our Privacy Policy. What are you looking for? Preferences Community Newsletters Log Out. Written by Andy McCue , Contributor. Holes in company networks are being exploited by hackers and fraudulent employees to store and distribute illegal pornography, media files and pirated software.

A 'honeypot' network set up purely to attract and monitor the level and type of hacking activity on the internet has found hackers are routinely scanning for misconfigured file transfer protocol FTP servers that allow them to upload and store material secretly on company networks for later download.

In a recent test, Espion deliberately misconfigured the FTP server — a regular occurrence for many firms - which allows for the transfer of files to and from hosts on the internet. The FTP server was configured to allow anonymous uploads and the creation of directories, while preventing anyone from downloading any files.