The harm that software pirates do

[Triumvir Emphy]

I was born and raised in Europe, most countries in europe have a 50% english speaker rate, with some countries like Holland and Germany as high as 78%. Software piracy is (just like soft drugs) usually ignored except for large scale blatent offenses.

While Ubik my have a purchased copy or that he posted his address or that his ip address is "recorded" is all besides the point.

ip address recorded,... 99.9% of all dialups are assigned a random ip address from a pool usually a class c (256 addresses) from an isp. so we can narrow it down to a city,....

I agree with Geoschmo, while a large company like microsoft is probably not hurt, a small one man operation is, this is not napster(an other can of worms).

No doubt Ubik works computer related, wonder what his company would do if customers started swapping his products.

By buying the game legally you provide MM the chance to provide us service by getting us updates and patches,... look at some of the other games out there and see how many patches they post, if any ever where even released.

Again i am not saying Ubik is doing anything illegal, although i do believe he is being careless, anybody part of the se4@yahooGroups mailing list will no doubt have had recieved several requests from people to end them your exe file.