Bob Hughes wrote:

> 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.

I meant the distinction between large scale pirating operations for money and
people cracking programs on their home pc.

>
>
> 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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