(07-20-2014, 06:19 PM)SargeMaximus Wrote:(07-20-2014, 05:58 PM)spiritman Wrote: Sarge I agree with what you say about the blu-ray analogy; however, these products we buy belong to Shannon. This is his life work, he needs to be compensated for his time, work and effort. When it is all said and done, Shannon has a right to put whatever limits he wants in regard to anti-piracy. All he is doing is trying to protect his products which he has put all his time, effort into creating them. No other products, which I have tried myself compare to Shannon's. Not to mention, to how he listens to his customers and improves them the way the customer wants, within the limits of the program.
I get that, I do. But it would sit better with me if he just owned that a bit more by saying "That's just the way it is, deal with it or move on". When you get into "legal/moral" arguments, you just force us to find ways around it.
If it's a legal concern: make them as sharable as a blu-ray. If it's your own thing, then it is what it is. But by comparing this to legal copyright laws, I have to point out that you are NOT, in actual fact, on par with them.
Well he is the one who created the product so in some way it is copyright protected. Maybe not in a legal aspect but it is still copyright material that someone created. I think Shannon has made it clear at least to me about where he stands. Basically, if you got his products illegally then the anti-piracy kicks. Which tells you in the future to buy his products instead of illegally downloading them. Which to me, doesn't seem too much to ask for. The products still works even if you get it illegally but it all comes down to morals. It just comes down to if you want a product, buy legally. Now I am guilty of downloading stuff illegally, I did that twice. With the two products, I like those products but in the end I didn't buy them. I bought other products that were similar to the ones I downloaded illegally. But I didn't get those products illegally, they were legit copies.
