Decent read, but flawed.

"For those people who refuse to buy the software and are too dumb to steal the patches or circumvent the system...

would we really expect them to be secure even if the patches are freely available?"

While this logic applies to some pirates, it certainly doesnt apply to all or even most of them.


"But even if Microsoft did reduce the price of Windows, would that really affect piracy? Some people would pirate software no how cheap it was or no matter how much they could afford it. Look at Winona Ryder; she certainly could have afforded the items she was caught shoplifting."

In short YES, reducing the price would reduce piracy. There is a definite segement of pirates that pirate Windows because they can't afford it rather than because they get a "thrill" running pirated software.


I agree with most of what he says, just not how he says it.

I especially like the autoupdate twist. If you want to pirate out software, your going to be forcefed our notoriously buggy updates. LOL

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