Do you buy pirated software installers or you just download them?
By pickoy
@pickoy (733)
Philippines
May 6, 2009 12:54am CST
With the current popularity of torrents in the internet, I wonder if there are still people who are buying pirated CD/DVD softwares. I have genuine OS at home and I don't encounter problems installing the relevant updates. My siblings are just using the ones they find in the internet and just download serials, they do work like original but the problem begins when they update, obviously, it can't pass the genuine test, and the only way to go around it is not to update at all. The problem with this, I have to format their PC every now and then coz the current virus that had been spreading is too strong for the OS to handle. Which do you prefer the original or the copycat?
4 responses
@kapil_poundarik (960)
• India
6 May 09
well if every one has money then no one is going buy pirated softwares no do any one is going to download them from the internet.well for me i too download the softwares from the internet.and for the update part of the my pirated os , i can update my windows,that is only possible if you put a patch that can pass the genuine test.i have turned on the automatic updates so my computer get updated on it own. but still if i have too much money then i would like to buy genuine softwares.
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@kurniawanSurvey (140)
• Indonesia
6 May 09
mostly I prefer the original product except for somethings that impossible to get in my country, like japan movies, it's just so rare. so I have to resort to other way
another reson I buy an original product, it's the bonus they give, poster, extra music cd, pin... you can't get those thing on the fake product
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@DanBen (346)
• India
6 May 09
I would prefer buying the original software, instead of pirated ones. I don't even download software's from torrents either. For me, getting the real thing, matters. I know there are people who can't afford the original, but Piracy is Piracy no mater what.
"it is like stealing a candy bar from a grocery store, the chances of you being caught are low or even non existent." (quotation from Sander Sassen's article Piracy, the good, the bad and the ugly?)
