pirated copies....U can get them latest softwares,games....Best to use for personal use if ur country has nt banned pirated cds
To answer your question on why it is such a big deal, companies lose lots of money because of this AND most importantly, it's illegal.
The companies who produce the product/program lose money, of course, since people just download warez instead of buying the licensed ones from them.
Lol. If they do, the people who make warez will find it and do it for that program. Either way they lose money
now a days, its always best, for developers (like me) to make license check frm server for web applications. encrypt the format and save your ass. thats it
WARZ is a general term used to categorize software which is either illegal, enables you to access other programs illegal, or causes harm to people either by ruining their reputation, disturbing them emotionally or mentally, etc. Hence, you have the following programs under WARZ 1. Virus 2. Trojans 3. Keyword loggers 4. Illegal MPS <- sometimes 5. Cracked CDS 5. Dictionary makers 6. Jack the Ripper 7. Virus generators.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opportunity_cost As a sole distributer [VS] With competitors who have little or no cost of doing business for the same product
I think most of them wouldn't buy it anyways if they had no choice. So there not really losing money, they never had it. Can't lose money you never had. For example photoshop is like several hundred or $1,000 or something. How many people out there that have photoshop payed for it? And if they could would they? A price like that would break some people, they would have to eat beanut butter sandwiches for a month. So would they do it? Hell no, there not going to eat peanut butter sandwiches for a month, they get a cracked version. It just code in a electronic format.. No something like a Car etc. You can't get a car for free, these items have actually work involved per unit of production and there is LOST money with stuff like this be stolen. I hope I made a good point but I'm not advocating electronic piracy I'm simply stating you cant really lose money on electronic goods, since there really is no cost per production of these things. They can be reproduced on the fly with no work.
You're spot on there. Software companies, the MPAA, and the RIAA gauge their losses based on how many times their product has been pirated but this is grossly inaccurate. First, you'd have to know how many of those downloaders were capable and prepared to pay money in the first place. If you can't afford Photoshop but you torrent it and use it, chances are you're going to give the software more exposure. Plus you will have learned to use their software so if you ever do decide to pay for a graphics program, you'll probably stick with what you know.