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"He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own." - Aesop
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Digital pirates and the "Warez" wars
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Posted by Paradoxx on Jan 24, 2002 09:04PM (PST)
from the dumbassfeds dept.
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"Every program you can think of can be found on the web, in a thousand different places in its complete version many weeks before it ever appears in the best shops, as everyone with the intelligence level of an eggplant soon discovers." -Fravia "The Reverser"
The software on your computer -- the programs you use to send emails, write memos, surf the web, whatever -- are nothing but ones and zeros neatly arranged on a magnetic disk. As such, they are easily copied verbatim to another disk, or even a million other disks. That ease of distribution, what tech heads call "propagation," is both the basis for the multi-billion dollar software industry, and its biggest threat.
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