07-15-2014, 11:42 AM
(07-14-2014, 11:15 PM)AlphaMind Wrote:(07-14-2014, 11:09 PM)Shannon Wrote: Did you pirate it? What do you suppose triggers antipiracy code? It's not getting the intended result. It's pirating the program. Apologizing for pirating a $298 program does not balance the equation. Undoing the piracy balances the equation.
Quote:I am very generous in allowing you to benefit from the program even if it's pirated. I am also very generous in not expecting you to pay for it if you did not benefit.
Does it?
Your grammar does not make sense in regards to everything you quote, but I will clarify.
If you buy something, and it does not work, it is reasonable too get a refund.
If you steal something, and it does not work, does that change the fact that you stole it? Hardly. The debt still remains. And, worse, you now have no recourse for a refund because you committed a crime.
If you pirated AM5 and did not get any benefit from it - which I highly doubt, because using it properly and resisting the whole thing completely would put you in the one-in-a-million club - then I don't expect you to pay for it. But the AP code does. And that snippet of programming will remain active until you do.
Now theoretically, you might say, well if AM5 didn't affect me, then the AP code didn't either. But I would wager that the chance that you were unaffected is a lot lower than you would like to believe, in either case.
If I were you, I would make right your wrongs and move on.
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The scientist has a question to find an answer for. The pseudo-scientist has an answer to find a question for. ~ "Failure is the path of least persistence." - Chinese Fortune Cookie ~ Logic left. Emotion right. But thinking, straight ahead. ~ Sperate supra omnia in valorem. (The value of trust is above all else.) ~ Meowsomeness!