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This message showed when I entered the serial specifically made for pirates. Right now feeling nothing but respect for plugin devs. Next month Imma buy this plugin 100% fixed, need it or don't need it doesn't matter anymore lol.

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[–] [email protected] 114 points 11 months ago (4 children)

I had a colleague who would buy legal versions of software and then shelve them while using pirated cracks because he hated the EULAs.

[–] [email protected] 53 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It is also an honorable course of action. Developer gets paid for their work, you use quality service with convenience.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Although it's not very honorable for developers to intentially create a worse product for people who pay, just to try to prevent a small number of pirated copies to work (which likely won't actually prevent anything).

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Usually that's not so much the developers but the publisher that the devs have to abide by.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

I meant it more as the company. I'm fully aware the individuals don't have any say. It's still often an internal decision though, but made by the suits, not the people actually creating the thing.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 11 months ago (3 children)

This is what I do with movies. I still, to this day, do not understand what possible purpose studios have for including 3 minutes of copyright warnings and other bullshit ahead of movies that people paid for. Pirates don’t see any of that shit, morons, and the people who are ripping these films already are ignoring the warnings. What the hell?

[–] [email protected] 28 points 11 months ago (1 children)

You would think that in 40+ years of being completely ineffective against pirates and only hurting paying customers they would have learned that that time and money could be better spent elsewhere, but I guess that would imply that the rich are rich because they make good decisions, instead of just being born with good options

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Ooh, I usually say luck and timing is what the rich had, but I like "being born with good options" too. Makes more sense since even with luck and timing, still need the means.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Pirates a movie, includes copyright warning on the pirated copy, include a note to say they're including it in good spirit of the producers wishes

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

I've seen pirates put in a modified version...

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

This. It's like "Let's wreck the paying customers! Ha ha, that will show those pirates."

WTF?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

I do this with games. A lot of games dont even really get a demo anymore. So its gambling to buy it...
I pirate the games and if i like it i buy it. Generally ill keep playing the pirated version unless it has a multiplayer i want to play as well.