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AnonTechie writes:
"Echoing a question asked on programmers.stackexchange.com - How can software be protected from piracy ?
It just seems a little hard to believe that with all of our technological advances and the billions of dollars spent on engineering the most unbelievable and mind-blowing software, we still have no other means of protecting against piracy than a "serial number/activation key." I'm sure a ton of money, maybe even billions, went into creating Windows 7 or Office and even Snow Leopard, yet I can get it for free in less than 20 minutes. Same for all of Adobe's products, which are probably the easiest. Can there exist a fool-proof and hack-proof method of protecting your software against piracy? If not realistically, could it be theoretically possible? Or no matter what mechanisms these companies deploy, can hackers always find a way around it ?"
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 22 2014, @06:28PM
If there was only one impoverished child in this world who sought refuge and respite from depression and engaged in piracy as their only means of escape. Pirating tv-shows, games, software to keep their mind occupied with better things than thoughts of suicide.
Then that would be enough for me to stand by piracy as a force of good.
I am however fairly certain there are millions of these children, who either know none or have no other options.
There is nothing lost for humanity at large, in piracy, only gained. There is merely the theoretical loss for the small, self-serving individual.
Doesn't anyone else feel we do more harm than good when we value money over other human beings?