There's something precious to me in those hormonal, caffeinated typing spasms you see around the internet. I don't know why, but I think the lingo of the tech-savy illiterates is hillarious. MIDI Life Crisis wrote:I do wish people would make that somewhat clear. If you connect to a P2P file sharing network, you might as well put a huge flagpole on your front lawn, hoist the jolly roger, and stand at the front door in your underwear screaming, 'come and get me, copper!' You are not only getting copies of software you didn't pay for, you are helping others get software they didn't pay for. And more recently (see Ars Technica for details), its is opening yourself up to class action lawsuits initiated by people who have little concern for piracy, but see an opportunity to take all your money. So it's not only picking up strange drunks in a bar, and bringing them home, its leaving your door open so whoever can come in and rummage around and have their way with whatever or whomever is there. Yes, and while you are connected, multiple computers can connect to your computer. It is actually computers (plural) that you are connecting to. Jim wrote:You're essentially connecting to a stranger's computer, and risking getting whatever they may have. It does show how prevalent software piracy is (as if we didn't know). I'm doing a computer upgrade and Googled some software name (don't recall) and the torrent sites were all listed toward the top with the actual software company well down the list! I don't understand how they are getting away with it. I was wondering that same thing just the other day. I don't download cracked software, I buy legit.

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Site somewhere, and these torrent sites even have advertising on them.Īre all these torrent sites 'cracked software' sites? How do they Searching a litle further, it seems that almost every audio softwareĪpp, plug-in, or VI is available as a free download from some 'torrent' VST to AU adapter (to answer a post in another section of this forum)Īnd came across a dozen torrent sites that list it as a free download. David Polich wrote:Call me naive or unaware or whatever - I did a search for fxPansion's

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