just make things more and more expensive for those of us who are honest.
Not really. Although I would never condone making an illegal copy, generally individuals who copy disks, whether programs, videos or PS2 games wouldn't have bought the original anyway. So in other words the software (in the case of software)manufacturer is getting more exposure but not actually loosing any profits, and possibly increasing profits as a direct result of the exposure ("My company needs a good web authoring tool, what would you recommend?"...."I recomend you get Macromedia Dreamweaver, I've used it before and its great").
I think that copying is part of "evolution". It will always be around and has always been around, I remember copying BBC Micro games at school in the 80's (old git
), and hasn't suddenly become an epidemic as the media would have you believe.
Just my own humble opinion based upon several decades of observations
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