I always use pirated software..Do you?

I personally feel that if ur using pirated versions of the copy not only ur causing loss to the company which in turn is a loss to a lot of people.The money the company wud have earned would have gone into R&D of new OS and resulted in jobs to thousands of people.Imagine if MS cud reduce piracy by 10% it wud create jobs for 50000 people.Moreover pirated versions have a lot flaws in them.if u dont want to pay i suggest u go for Linux which is better than MS in terms of security and other features. Always Buy original.

When you purchase pirated software you are hurting the company and driving the costs even higher. With the newest Windows OS if you have a pirated copy of anything on your PC it is not suppose to run. You are doing something illegal since you are using another person’s license when you run a pirated version of software on your PC. I don’t think $100 is much to spend on any software. Of course, most of the software I require for my job is at least $300 even with a student discount.

I use pirated software too. Indonesia was nothing, although many computer producer sold so many of their products here but none of the software company did not even care. So is it wrong if we pirated them ? And now some of the software company come to Indonesia and ask people to change to the original one, in a high price. Hell, who want it ? We already pirated it and we can pirated more. If they don't sell us in lower price, no way we change to the original one.

I think its ok with microsoft company to patronize pirated software if is for personal use. But if for business you need to have a licensed. The main logic is you can patronized microsoft products so that you will be familiarized with their software. For ex: using Microsoft Operating System. Most of the software/utilities released by microsoft is compatible with their OS unlike linux and other OS.

We never use the pirated copies even they are costly. buying pirated copies are just like a crime ..no ,no it is crime . the best solution is share money with your friend and buy the original copy..

I do have a pirated one but iam having pc problem right now. It keeps on shutting down and disk checking. Iam not sure though if it was because of that or something else. The original version are so expensive. I think its ok to use the pirated ones if it is for home use only.

I do not use pirated spoftwares but If you are knowingly using it for commercial purposes, then you can do some jail time, but if you get caught using it for personal use, the worst that can happen would be, that it gets confiscated.

To be honest, Yes i do use pirated software, there is aplace close to me that sells all that stuff... Anyways Windows XP is really expensive and i just got it for 5$. I also got my photoshop from this place and some videogames that were burnt. But the thing is that from what i heard, when you buy stolen things and pirated software is in a way stolen, you are the one who pretty much stole it... This is kind of confusing :P

some of my softwares are pirated but just like others i use them for personal use not to profit on them. i think 90% of my softwares are pirated ;P

I do not feel the need to buy pirated software as there is plenty of freeware online that matches upto standards. At present, for free i have got, professional office software, a great paint/photoshop, many virus protection systems, a firewall , a few adware and spyware scanners and alot more. p.s i dont think it was wise to broadcast that you use pirates on a site with alot of viewers lol

I understand why people do it. The software companies charge a fortune for software and it is normally full of bugs and security failures. If software was cheaper - people would be far more likely to buy it. The only issue with pirated software, lots of companies now do products checks, to ensure that it is a genuine copy. Before they will let you download updates. But there are always ways round these.

ya i am using pirated sofwere because these are very costly and impossible to buy. and i think we are not able to buy softwere then we should use pirated softweres.

i used pirated because licensed software are to much expensive, in the philippines if your gonna buy a pirated software it will cost you only for $1 and it has a lot of software in it like one cd has 10 softwares you could use but if im gonna buy a licensed software for example the operating system like windows it will cost $300 way to much for us but i just used pirated software for my personal use before here in the philippines computer shop use pirated operating system but now it is strictly prohibited if you have a computer shop and they caught you using pirated software they will confiscate all your computers and you have to pay a big penalty.

I do use pirated software and i feel bad about it

i do use them sometimes, but i think they are not very good as genuine ones.

i think most of the people around the world are using pirated softwares because its completely out of reach to buy original software for middle class people.nobody wants to use pirated copy but we have no other choice.i think only big cooprates can afford it.a genuine copy of XP will cost you around $450 but you can get a pirated one for $2.5.and both will work the same way.

I really live a sheltered life! My software (Windows XP)came installed on the computer I bought. I would never consider buying pirated software...I wouldn't even know how to do that...I've never heard so much justification for stealing before. Wow...I don't know what to think. Just think if you were the person who invented or wrote the program...you would expect to get paid for your work and expect to get a residual from every copy sold. How would you like it if everyone bought stolen copies, or bought one copy and shared a copy with all of their friends? It's okay because you are going to use it only for your personal use? Wow...

I wouldn't be admitting on a public forum like this that you used pirated software...

yes i used to but now buyin licensed version as its more safer and makes u feel gud too.

I use pirated copies of Windows2000 and MS-Office for my personal. I think, there's no problem using these softwares for personal purpose as the price of these softwares are too high for us. This helps us to use computers in low cost. Thus computing spreads in our country very fast.