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Pharismo:
http://www.jkozy.com/Intellectual_Property__Software__and_Piracy.htm

i could say i agree with this article because i also have others reason such as numbers cant be a property.


What you guys think? Should software be called an intellectual property or not?

Soryon:
first off, TL;DR full article~
Yea I kinda think it should be considered intellectual property (in most, not all, cases), but since I am an asshole I will still find a crack/way around paying for it.

fohfoh:
Uhh... if a book can be called intellectual property, why not software?

HOLY SHIT IT'S JUST INK!

Ixarku:
Read the article... I’m not going to dissect it paragraph by paragraph, but I don't agree with it at all.  In my opinion, it's just another person trying to justify piracy, and I don't think the author adequately refutes the central premise behind ownership of intellectual property:  in our society, we generally accept that if someone creates something, they own it, unless they've signed away the rights to it, or they didn't otherwise have the rights of ownership in the first place (e.g. they plagiarized the material).  Other laws notwithstanding, the owner of the property normally gets to decide their business model when they put their product on the market.  (By business model, I mean, whether they lease the product or sell it outright -- for example, its common for car manufacturers to lease vehicles to buyers.)

At the most fundamental level, software is still something tangible that somebody has created, regardless of the details of how it came to be, or how it's different from or similar to some other product, or what the quality of the software is, and regardless of the business model used to sell any other product.  It strikes me as a core component of capitalism that, if you create something, you own it, and ultimately you get to decide how your creation is marketed to others.

Soryon:

--- Quote from: Ixarku on June 08, 2010, 01:35:40 AM ---in our society, we generally accept that if someone creates something, they own it, unless they've signed away the rights to it, or they didn't otherwise have the rights of ownership in the first place (e.g. they plagiarized the material).

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I agree with this, but as I said above; when able, I will not be paying for any of it.
As far as software goes these days, something new comes out, a few months later something better comes out based on the same idea/technology. Personally, I will not be paying for each and every new upgrade/newer version. My money is best spent elsewhere.
But that doesnt mean I dont think they own the rights to said product, rather I am one of the reasons they dont thrive.

The rate at which newer and better things arrive and are all based on same but a few added functions has made me not wish to spend on any of it.

Hardware on the other hand...

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