does anyone have all legal software?

SuperMegatron · Post by **SuperMegatron** » Fri Jul 11, 2003 8:23 am

I dont think I have a single legal hunk of software on my pc unless aol im counts I wont buy any thing i can get for free and i believe its legal to download stuff like office movie studios tried to sue vcr makers along time ago because people taped hbo movies instead of buying them it went to court and the ruling was you have a right to copy anything that comes into your house so if i dl windows xp its being broadcast into my house so i can copy it the dude distributing is the one breaking the law

Prophet][ · Post by **Prophet][** » Fri Jul 11, 2003 8:35 am

The computer I use for uni work has all legal software.

Soulhunter123 · Post by **Soulhunter123** » Fri Jul 11, 2003 8:38 am

can i put my picture back up~? i mean, these guys have ALL admitted their software, i didnt admit anything!

ok ban me if you must but..........(sharp intake of breath)

removed again

**EDIT** aw.

CoasterKing · Post by **CoasterKing** » Fri Jul 11, 2003 9:42 am

Well the pic would count as Warez bragging which is against the rules

Anyway, no I don't have 100% legal software. For instance I buy games and then I sometimes use cd cracks on them. This is more for convenience than anything else and I couldn't care less whether it's legal or not. I also have a few other things but on the whole I like to support the companies who make the software I use.

I have to say I would find it incredibly surprising that anyone on an EMULATION site would have 100% completely legal content on thier computer but meh...I'm not going to insult someone's integrity by saying they don't. So if you are 100% legal then I take my hat off to you sir/madam

AmadeusZull · Post by **AmadeusZull** » Fri Jul 11, 2003 10:55 am

i have aim. who wants to cyber sex with me?

lim · Post by **lim** » Fri Jul 11, 2003 11:41 am

I'll do it, Zull. Only if I can give you a glass bottom boat ride-- through aim.

sixteen-bit · Post by **sixteen-bit** » Fri Jul 11, 2003 12:12 pm

CoasterKing wrote:I have to say I would find it incredibly surprising that anyone on an EMULATION site would have 100% completely legal content on thier computer but meh...I'm not going to insult someone's integrity by saying they don't. So if you are 100% legal then I take my hat off to you sir/madam

Well, my computer's HDD is pretty clean. I don't install much to it and when I do, it's either legally bought games or freeware / opensource or shareware.
My USB disk is a different matter though. It stores my media and emulation stuff.

AmadeusZull · Post by **AmadeusZull** » Fri Jul 11, 2003 12:39 pm

lim wrote:I'll do it, Zull. Only if I can give you a glass bottom boat ride-- through aim.

i'm better then that. by the end i'm gonna have you use your index finger to penetrate your asshole in circles.

Nyarlathotep · Post by **Nyarlathotep** » Fri Jul 11, 2003 12:58 pm

SuperMegatron wrote:I dont think I have a single legal hunk of software on my pc unless aol im counts I wont buy any thing i can get for free and i believe its legal to download stuff like office

Thats because you are OFFICIALLY a lamer.

Soulhunter123 wrote:can i put my picture back up~?

No, no you cannot.

CoasterKing wrote:I have to say I would find it incredibly surprising that anyone on an EMULATION site would have 100% completely legal content on thier computer but meh

Surprisingly easy if you live outside the US, surprisingly impossible under the DMCA

especially given that copyright issues are a civil matter not a legal one, and software != media

404NotFound · Post by **404NotFound** » Fri Jul 11, 2003 1:00 pm

Inu_Sess__ wrote:
404NotFound wrote:I may have an illegal app or two, but OfficeXP, WinXP, etc. I have legit (colleges give em out for free )

My mom just finished colledge again, when she was there we got WinXP Pro for $25 and office for $15 from the store at the university.

Yeah, I must complement MS on their lax and huge student discounts...

You can get stuff at like... sub OEM prices.

Lartrak · Post by **Lartrak** » Fri Jul 11, 2003 2:25 pm

I think the real question is why would you bother with emulation if you own the originals? The only exception for me at least is playing my NES games, as my toploader is screwy. Of course, there are also people in colleges who have all their carts/discs elsewhere.

Soulhunter123 · Post by **Soulhunter123** » Fri Jul 11, 2003 3:05 pm

i have an Amiga, MegaDrive, Dreamcast,Gameboy but I still have emulators for all ofthose on my laptop, and one for MegaDrive on DC (

we all know which one i can use without problems, hehe. shame it was you know, illegal).

BUT I DONT CARE

lim · Post by **lim** » Fri Jul 11, 2003 3:37 pm

The PC scene as we now know it, wouldn't exist without piracy. If hobbyist groups in the 70's didn't pirate software to match up with their home made machines- we wouldn't have had people like Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs explode onto the scene with apple. The same can be said for precursors to the IBM pc and hobbyists who pirated software. Interestingly enough, Bill Gates, at the time, was super pissed against hobbyist groups using his and other kinds of software without his permission. He wanted them to be legally shut down, who knows what would've happened if he succeded.

Warez is a double edged sword, you've got bums who copy the work of others and try to make a profit, which is wrong. However, there are numerous other people who can develop things with software they could never afford and in the end, create really neat things. I'm sure if there were more small groups of talented people, like titanium studios, and more access to the dev kits to the dreamcast, we'd have neat games. However, under the letter of the law, such action always involves stealing. But much like the hobbyists in the 70's who illegally used software to make their primitive pc's run, people who warez always ultimately get what they want, no matter what bitching and whining goes on. Sometimes.

Post by **|darc|** » Fri Jul 11, 2003 5:21 pm

PC? Yes. No illegal software there.
Xbox? No. XDK emulators, ROMs, XDK apps, etc.
My sisters PC (She uses it to check her email and browse the web and listen to music)? She has Kazaa and has illegal downloaded mp3s, and I use her 15 gigabyte hard drive to back stuff onto. Tons of warez, movies, music, there.

Wagh · Post by **Wagh** » Fri Jul 11, 2003 5:51 pm

well software as in applications .. no. 2k was given to me in a pile of os's from a ms employee, office xp is a beta ( meh ms sent it to me their fault ) For the most part i use demos and maybe have one or two programs cracked.
Games.. Out of the 5 games or so I have 4 of them were purchased legally ( I don't play that many games )
Movies I have a bunch of homemade stuff that's about it
mp3s it's like 75/25 here. 75 being ripped from cds and the rest are from newsgroups

toastman · Post by **toastman** » Fri Jul 11, 2003 5:52 pm

lim wrote:The PC scene as we now know it, wouldn't exist without piracy. If hobbyist groups in the 70's didn't pirate software to match up with their home made machines- we wouldn't have had people like Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs explode onto the scene with apple. The same can be said for precursors to the IBM pc and hobbyists who pirated software. Interestingly enough, Bill Gates, at the time, was super pissed against hobbyist groups using his and other kinds of software without his permission. He wanted them to be legally shut down, who knows what would've happened if he succeded.

Warez is a double edged sword, you've got bums who copy the work of others and try to make a profit, which is wrong. However, there are numerous other people who can develop things with software they could never afford and in the end, create really neat things. I'm sure if there were more small groups of talented people, like titanium studios, and more access to the dev kits to the dreamcast, we'd have neat games. However, under the letter of the law, such action always involves stealing. But much like the hobbyists in the 70's who illegally used software to make their primitive pc's run, people who warez always ultimately get what they want, no matter what bitching and whining goes on. Sometimes.

I've hardly read so much misinformation in one place.
Titanium Studios is an actual development team, they were the ones who ported Quake 3 to the Dreamcast, they did the first Quake on a 2-day lark or something like that to prove the ease of porting across using the WinCE tools.

butters · Post by **butters** » Fri Jul 11, 2003 6:04 pm

My Linux hard drive is totally legal at the moment. My windows drive that contains my storage partition is another story though

BTW, I get upgrade versions of Windows, Office, and Norton Antivirus Corporate for free download or $10 on CD because I'm a student hehehehehe

Soulhunter123 · Post by **Soulhunter123** » Fri Jul 11, 2003 7:04 pm

i can get other things on cd for 10 quid hehe

if only you coulda seen my pic...

Jaded JAaron77 · Post by **Jaded JAaron77** » Sat Jul 12, 2003 8:03 pm

uh..yea...all my stuff is legal, uh...yea! yea, thats right!

Soulhunter123 · Post by **Soulhunter123** » Sat Jul 12, 2003 8:11 pm

i love squirrels