Forum: Vue


Subject: Vue4 Warez copy

Rimkopf opened this issue on Sep 15, 2002 ยท 37 posts


Kelderek posted Mon, 16 September 2002 at 3:23 AM

I agree fully with Guitta on this one, the price is not the issue. Stealing is stealing, period. The opinion that "it doesn't hurt the manufacturer because the person wouldn't have bought such an expensive software anyway" might have some kind of logical substance in it, but logic is not the only issue here. It's a question of ethics as well. We have do draw the line somewhere. And the only place to draw it is at $0. However, when people are asking questions that are obviously easy to find answers to in the manual, I would prefer that we give them the benefit of doubt. Sometimes (not here, but more often in another Renderosity forum) people are very quick to flame a newbie for asking simple questions that might hint to the fact that they don't have a manual available and they are therefore immediately suspected of warezing. People are innocent until prove guilty, and that should apply here too. Some people have a problem understanding manuals, especially in a foreign langauge, and then we should help. If it's obvious that they have an illegal copy, the flamethrowers can be lit, but don't be too easy on the triggers.