(12-19-2015, 05:26 AM)Darkness Wrote: Stealing is stealing.
However what constitutes as stealing, if two people both invest in the product together which one is the thief, if a parent buys a video game for two children to share, who stole the video game. If I buy life tune up for a friend of mine and he plays it over stereo speakers in the same room he sleeps with his wife which one of them is the thief. In that scenario is it even fair for an apcode to exist. Does a couple who want to run the same sub in bed while they sleep have to both buy a copy to receive benefit. The method is unethical because you can't assume that the product is being bought for an individual, if it is and couples can't invest together why would they even consider this when they can turn to the millions of free subliminals on YouTube. Just what part of that is fair? What part of that is stealing? Apple lets me share my purchases with 4 other people, when I rent a digital movie to chill and watch with my girlfriend on a Friday night, I don't rent it twice. It's unfair. It's unethical. And like stated many times the apcode is developed from a scarcity mindset, it's all about pinching the consumer dry, good strategy for making some extra dough in the short term but frankly people will begin to lose trust, so I recently bought MLS 5G for myself and I have also been letting my 22 year old brother use it, (I know, by defintion my copy of MLS+Stop Piracy is technically not being used in accordance with the AP code) but I'll give you my reasoning as a consumer why I have done this
My brother was born with learning disabilities, he still lives with my mum he can't get a job because no one will hire him, I'm doing Japanese at university, he's fascinated with it I love taking the time out to teach him some when I can, he is good at recognising the kanji characters as they are more pictographic than our alphabet, it would take him about 15 minutes to read a short paragraph this size (5ish lines).
However, he can recognise the pictographs and can process it faster than he can English, he's been using MLS for about 4 weeks and yes we checked with his physician to ensure it was safe for him to run subliminal products and she could see no harm in trying, in fact he loves the sub, he has been studying and drawing the characters and it's amazing for me too see him be able to achieve this as there has always been a communication barrier as he struggles to write or text me, and I haven't lived with him for 13 years, but now my brother loves playing his MLS ocean surf track and can now actually text me in Japanese, his speech has also dramatically improved and my mum can't believe the effects the sound of the ocean has had on his communication. Yes he may never work, and he may always have difficulty communicating and building relationships with others but for the first time in his life he has something that he can use to communicate more effectively.
However in reality I bought that subliminal for my university course work, so I know Shannon in your eyes I am some kind of apcode breaking pirate, but am I really the ultimate law breaking pirate for letting him use a product I had purchased to see if it could help him, is it really damaging you that your products get used in this manner, I mean with this as an example he could never be a customer, so its not a missed out sale due to piracy, you still got the sale. This is not a testimonial in any way of your product it's an example of how strict you are being. I mean technically its only one copy as its done over a remote connection, his computer is locked to only be a remote connection of mine as he is still new to computers it prevents him from causing errors that i'd have to travel 100 or so miles to sort. Two people are benefitting though, is it really always black and white? Does it have to be that if i dont agree with your views that you immediately think I'm out to steal from you or attack your business.
(Apologies for any grammar spelling issues it's 2am and I typed this on my phone)
