I know many don't go for the whole idea of warez, I'm guilty of trying
out a Ad banner remover of a free Ad-based (unnamed here. oh-oh. see?
hiding already...) ISP myself (and that's about the only thing I've ever
touched, honest). Btw, it was total crap (pardon me) to use it, slow and
buggy. I'm not sure what this has to do with freeware at all anyway.
Especially is the fact that most people that use programs for art or
such would be appalled by the illegal use of programs they buy (for more
reasons than the money factor).
Even a penniless (well, maybe not penniless of course) starving artist
is on the road to criminal behavior if pirating software for the sake of
using a 3D renderer. If there's POV-Ray to use, the person is either
greedy or insanely addicted to 3D modeling (aren't we all though).
In other words, take the Chinese CD pirating in the news a while back,
they were in it for money, far different thing. And someone trying
desperately to do 3D renders for the reason of making images is not
nearly the same thing. I think this always remains the distinction, yet
I have to say the paths are both the same.
You mention "small" warez things like cracked versions of 3DS. Can't see
that as being a small thing myself.


Thomas Lake wrote:
> 
> I was thinking of starting up a small poll on my web site, but I was
> wondering what people in the POV community especially think about this
> subject, Pov-Ray being freeway and all. The poll is: What do you think
> about Warez software? For those that don't know Warez= pirated software.
> I'm not talking about large scale sale a distribution but small scale
> pirating, things like cracked versions of 3D Studio and such. Just
> curious as to what the Pov community thinks. :-)

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