Click - Pirate Software Gangs - BBC News 24

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Click reporter, Dan Simmons travels to Malaysia to track down the pirate software gangs. He discovers how Microsoft Vista has been cracked by hackers and how the software industry is planning to hit back with a tactic that could affect both illegal and legitimate software users.
You can catch the full version of Click on BBC News 24: Saturday at 11:30 and 20:30, Sunday at 04:30, 07:35 and 15:30, Monday at 00:30.

A slightly shorter version during BBC Breakfast is shown on BBC News 24 and BBC One: Saturday at 06:45.

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[Mesia2]

when you copy an original the original does not disappear, when you steal something the original is taken and disappears therefore copying is NOT stealing and piracy is not stealing.

[cronosconstantino]

thank god for piracy.

[toshibashish]

love piracy.........move on..

[zopicloneable]

Sure, they should make a profit for creating the software, but when they start getting greedy by inflating the price way beyond what the software is worth, then I'm on the side of piracy

[Bred0nSch00lV2]

If it weren't for keygens I wouldn't have acquired my liking to fasttracker music!

[k3ytech]

Just use open source....

[Philmozzila]

@Philmozzila

and thats why games are fighting it with downloadable content and similar stuff..

sell me Windows 7 for 30% od the price and i would be happy to buy it...

[Philmozzila]

Reduce the price of Software and Games and people would be happy to buy it, its that simple and you would probably sell more

[cdubmeyer]

@Mesia2 dude i have been pirating and selling software for about 2 years now and I STILL know its stealing...its not mine, I didn't create it, and I'm making money off of something that is not my own....that is just an excuse you said to make ppl feel better about pirating things. I pirate and sell so....I know what I'm talking about, its still wrong...do i give a fuck... no, but its still wrong.

[carlybodmer]

here is an amazing technology: look at youtube titled: how to bo.lt ! really cool

[labobo]

WARNING !!!

"rent a program" wow now that is just crap and yet another way for companies to milk more money out of you.

Also think about the internet, sometimes it goes down in your area, even sites go down or out of business so how are you supposed to use such programs if one of those things happen ?

[maw88ify]

@Antrikshy Piss on them we are talking about software company like Microsoft " Microsoft announced a record revenue of $19.02 billion for the second quarter ended Dec. 31, 2009, a 14% increase from the same period of the prior year." So they can suck it they make tons of money... Software should be free, and I am a support of the free , and open source software movement ... Like Linux Mint , or Linux Ubuntu for example a free operating system that have almost now viruses unlike Windows...