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An expensive piracy
An expensive piracy
Posted Aug 23, 2005 21:40 UTC (Tue) by job (subscriber, #670)Parent article: On the defense of piracy enablers
The very idea that such a software would be created as a piracy enabler is absurd. Who would pay for that development? You could probably buy a couple of hundred licenses for the money that so many hours of development work would bring in, if it was a purely commercial endeavour.
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An expensive piracy
Posted Aug 24, 2005 13:46 UTC (Wed) by southey (subscriber, #9466) [Link]
Oh, I don't know, the apparent ease that coders have to create things like bnetd and cracking the xbox suggests that this is what companies are already doing :-).