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Ahem.
I buy legal music and software, and have stopped downloading illegally.. and not everyone with an internet connection is a pirate :)
But i am sure that everyone of us were pirates once..At least one less pirates will slowly make a difference...heheh How are you Jinny??
Arrrrrrggg!
Waakakaka
I like the last line.
"Dedicated to the Pirate King: Download Everything!"
The song is weird. And the fact that it is on You TUbe is kinda ironic. :P
WAH.... why la target me?
Since stupid TMNuts blocked/throttle bandwidth on all P2P stuff. (maximum 5kbps for me)
I barely download stuff. Ask Mark.. I'm going over to his house to get stuff I want... sighs... It takes days or weeks to get anything...
But back to the main topic... I still won't buy anything ori unless its really worth it. If they lower the price to like RM10 or so for a CD, I won't buy ori CD's.. RM35-44 is just too much.
Talk about movies? Lately, they all suck. Some are not even worth watchin in cinema. And face it, P2P promotes artists/movies... It reaches a further audience and when people face the guilt, they will buy ori. Like Mark, if he wants to test/listen to an artist he'll download one or 2 songs. Then if nice, he'll buy the album.
Its kinda like try first then only buy. But for ppl who are poor, cnanot lo. So what to do? Get the next best thing. DL lo...
I really would switch to ori everything if it were cheaper... Really! :)
-Leto-
It is just the exchange rates.CD's and DVD here is aussie are cheap.Plus games here are also cheap and you can trade in your old ones for new ones.
You have a point there.However, there are only a handful of people that are like Mark.I believe that there is more than meets the eye.P2P has gone out of control.Too out of control till it has been a hazard.
One thing for sure P2P did make people like Russel Peters , Omid Dijili, bands like Josh Harwell and Racal Faltts. Famous.Plus WongFu Productions got their fame through P2P.At the end of the they i reckon there is 2 sides to the coin.Some people made money from P2P some didnt unfortunately.
Oh well........
I'm fine, Adrian :) Busy but fine.
Regarding everyone being a pirate once - may be true to a certain extent, but I know of people who've never pirated anything in their life.
As for me, now that I'm earning my own money, it's easier for me now to get licenses for all the software I need. And most software for the Mac tends to be cheap unlike Micro$ucks software, so it's alright for me.
Otherwise, if I'm unable to pay for the software that month, I strike a deal with my parents (happened a few times already) - I take a loan from them, purchase the software, and slowly pay them back over a span of few weeks/months, interest free. So where's the problem? None :)
That is nice..Oh well it really depends on a lot of things.You can say microsoft suck and MAC is better.I have to say that there are some good things in MAC and good things about Microsoft.I dont think it is a good thing to jump to conclusion like that.It really depends on what you are comfortable with.No saying that you are totally wrong.However i feel that there is always 2 sides to a coin.
Thats nice to be independant and stuff like that it is really cool.You learn a lot.A friend of mine did the same as you are doing he got a very cool laptop.Plus he is also a tester for microsoft windows vista.He does testing for both MAC and PC.Yea the pricing for MS stuff are really expensive.Man he told me that windows vista will be price at 320 AUD just for an upgrade.Man if you ask that is expensive.
Anyways, good luck on your exams and have fun keep in touch....
The price of vista will drop eventually... actually, they must.
There are more and more people converting to MAC already. Even I am quite shaken and would like to have one. You might ask what? the Mighty Leto has fallen?
No lerr... I've seen the memory management of Mac.. and if its used for work and especially memory heavy applications, Mac is the machine u want. Compare to windows, there is just no match. However since many of us would like to play games on PC, the windows OS still offers that part of the chip. Though you can get a Mac and then get some emulators or install XP itself onto it, but its just too much hassle and thus windows is the better choice for gaming. Mac Games are original and pirated versions are hard to find.
So, buy a MAC if you dont wanna play games and wanna work alone. Get a PC if you wanna play games. Many people however believe that console will be the next gen in gaming but I personally doubt it. There is a limit as to where consoles can go. Eventually a console will become a PC and thus dont waste money on it. :)
Yea i couldnt agree more..everything is so eventual.Here they are really big on consoles and mac.I just saw one guy using the Black mac.It looks awesome.Yea MAC is good for just work i could not agree more.I guess consoles will not be a PC, for now. I dont know but there will be a war of consoles in the years to come.Consoles are so big here that i got a mate of mine who has 3 consoles with a plasma tv.Not that he is rich but it cheap here.An average partimer can afford a X Box 360 in a week.Games here are cheap too.
So at the end of the day.Priates we are.Once we earn our money perhaps we will be a non - pirate.
