This is what my C++ book has to say about software piracy

**Travisw111** · 4th October 2002

"Many commerical software packages are protected by copyright laws against software piracy--the practice of illegally copying software for the use on another computer. Therefore, if you violate this law, your company or university can be fined heavily for allowing this activity to occur(heh, yah right, like its there fault we broke the law). Besides the fact that software piracy is against the law,using software copied from another computer increases the possibility that your computer will receive a virus. For alll these reasons, you should read the copyright restrictions that pertain to a particular software package and adhere to them."

Ahah, I just find that amusing that they try to scare people off with viruses.

**acidack** · 4th October 2002

Originally posted by Travisw111
"Many commerical software packages are protected by copyright laws against software piracy--the practice of illegally copying software for the use on another computer. Therefore, if you violate this law, your company or university can be fined heavily for allowing this activity to occur(heh, yah right, like its there fault we broke the law). Besides the fact that software piracy is against the law,using software copied from another computer increases the possibility that your computer will receive a virus. For alll these reasons, you should read the copyright restrictions that pertain to a particular software package and adhere to them."

Ahah, I just find that amusing that they try to scare people off with viruses.

guess what, it works. Not with us obviously but the majority dont download games/apps.
Insteatd they buy the pirate copies from asia

**acidack** · 4th October 2002

Originally posted by Travisw111
"Many commerical software packages are protected by copyright laws against software piracy--the practice of illegally copying software for the use on another computer. Therefore, if you violate this law, your company or university can be fined heavily for allowing this activity to occur(heh, yah right, like its there fault we broke the law). Besides the fact that software piracy is against the law,using software copied from another computer increases the possibility that your computer will receive a virus. For alll these reasons, you should read the copyright restrictions that pertain to a particular software package and adhere to them."

Ahah, I just find that amusing that they try to scare people off with viruses.

guess what, it works. Not with us obviously but the majority dont download games/apps.
Instead they buy the pirate copies from asia

**Travisw111** · 4th October 2002

Hahah, this is the part about how evil hacking is:

"You may have heard stories about "computer hackers" who have broken into secure data banks by using their own computer to call the computer that controls access to the data bank. Some individuals have sold classified information retrieved in this way to intellgience agencies of other countries. Other hackers have tried to break into computers to retrieve information for their own amusement or as a prank, or just to to demonstrate that they can do it. Regardless of the intent, this activity is illegal, and the government will prosecute anyone who does this. Your university now probably addresses this kind of activity in your student handbook. The punishment is probably similar to that for other criminal activity, because that is exactly what it is."

OMG this guy really pushes my buttons. First of all his entire argument against hacking and piracy is that, its "illegal" so don't do it! He sounds like a guy who would feel guilty for copying and pasting a phrase off a website and not paying the person who made the site hundreds of dollars. A real conservative. The way he explains hacking in his terminology is laughable. And the fact that he thinks the majority of everday hackers are selling info to other countries! What a riot

And I find it funny that he mentions that our school should handle all this. "I bet your school has rules in there about teh hacking and teh piracy! Its illegal anyway! " Wtf does my school have to do with hacking? Even if someone decides to hack WITH SCHOOL COMPUTERS and gets caught, then what are the schools going to do? Get rid of his computer access? Come on, it would be handled by higher-ups of course and the school would have about zero fucking involvement. And why is this guy putting shit about hacking into a C++ book anyway? To discourage people from writing viruses in C++?

If I saw this pussy on the streets I would beat his naive ass down