ookami opened this issue on Jul 29, 2003 ยท 27 posts
ookami posted Tue, 29 July 2003 at 8:53 AM
I've argued this point before, rockets, but I'll do it again. Some people may not realize what they are doing is wrong. They are not neccessarily "dumb", but more "uneducated" in the computer world. It's the same type of people who download tons of music files, never knowing that it is wrong. I've heard of a 60+ year old woman downloading music because someone sent her Kazaa. It just never occurred to her that it might be wrong. When someone told her, she was horrified. That's one of the reasons I'd love to see a message up front, and also like to see the moderators post a "Warez is wrong, etc. statement before locking a thread. I would rather educate a person than just send him somewhere else to find the answers without ever hearing the truth. So maybe it only applies to 1 in 10 or even 1 in 100. Wouldn't it be worth it for that one person? I believe so.