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Re: OT: An Interesting Read About Bit-Torrents

The whole issue about copyright varies from country to country.
EULAs for example are widely not enforceable in the EU. Simply put, you already bought the software, the whole sales agreement was done in the shop (or where ever) and the EULA is just a try to alter this agreement. If you don't agree then the EULA will not become valid.
Clicking the "ok" button does not signal agreement. You own the software. You have already bought every right to use it. Preventing you from using the software before agreeing to EULA (and therefore altering the already existing agreement) is just blackmail.
Similar you have a right to copy software or music for your own use. You bought it. You own it. With ownership comes the right to do with a thing as you please (even destroying it). Preventing you from copying or selling it is interfering with your ownership.
Your right as an owner however is limited by copyright laws which try to balance the issue. Therefore you are only allowed to copy it for your own use, sell it if you don't keep a copy and prevent your from de-compiling it if the creator did not install program parts that interfere with your fair use.

Re: OT: An Interesting Read About Bit-Torrents

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Atrocities said:
There Under Fire

And the Tracker Sites

For those of you who may use Bit-Torrents for lagit purposes, the linked to sites might be of interest. I don't think they are going after lagit uses, but are going after pirate crap. Just interesting news that I thought I would post.

The major bittorrent site mentioned in the first article has been basiclly shut down and according to the small news post left there it will not be coming back.

Re: OT: An Interesting Read About Bit-Torrents

Thank god i live in Brazil, where even the government offices use pirated software!!!

BTW: i don�t like piracy in any form, ��m even arranging a way to buy an original copy of SEV from the US instead of pirating it when it is launched.... even if it will, in the end, cost me the triple of the original price...

BTW2: I think piracy, at least of the people that have how to buy games, is a way of promoting your product, i myself discovered SEIV when a friend showed to me a pirated copy of SEIII and i loved the game enough to ask a friend of mine from Miami to buy and send by mail an original SEIV disk... I found the SEIII game so good that i could not, in my good conscience, to pirate SEIV and not reward the programmer that created it by buying the game...