operaguy opened this issue on Dec 09, 2008 · 60 posts
LostinSpaceman posted Wed, 10 December 2008 at 1:58 AM
Quote - not exactly worried phantom3d when the guy admits stealing right in the article. and the phrase "no remorse?" That is an vital characteristic of a sociopath.
http://www.mcafee.cc/Bin/sb.html
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Then you might as well send the paddy wagon to every Software Journalist office that is out there. Journalists everywhere from Ziff Davis to G4 TV have used the same methods when reviewing software and have even clearly stated as much in their articles for as long as I have been involved with computers. The Journalists are sent software to review by a certain deadline that can't be met if the software can not be installed and run.
In the cases he mentioned "No Remorse" about, he was sent legitimate copies of the software to review that required Dongles or Serials that were not supplied properly and in a timely fashion for his review of said software so he grabbed a cracked version to write his reviews. Did you catch that? He had Legitimate Copies that he could not run so he chose to grab what he needed to get the job done, not just for his article and job, but also so that those software packages would have their free publicity in his reviews! This was a well known practice in the days of Dongles and anyone in the software business will tell you it was going on. This does not a sociopath make.