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In article <eilersm-3009...@phx-1-45.psn.net>, eil...@psn-remove.net (Michael M. Eilers) wrote:
>> 
>> I'm a huge advocate for pirating software. I am one of the
>> (supposedly) many who try before we buy. I've gone through games like
>> MDK and Redneck Rampage, and personally, they stink. Sure, there were
>> a few new ideas, but they had no replay value. Quake, on the other
>> hand, is a great game, and that's why I bought it last week.
>> There used to be some kind of telnet BBS that had a try-before-you-buy
>> concept and you had 24 hours to try the full game before you deleted
>> it. If that were extended to two or three days, I think it's a great
>> idea.
>> 
>> Pirating doesn't mean you're cheap (Usually, I don't support the
>> idiots who just suck up everything they can because they 'can'), it
>> means you want to know what you're buying.
>

>Interesting theory. So I suppose you put 10,000 miles on a car before you
>buy it, just to see if it will last?

No, but i usually take the car for a test drive before i buy it.

> Or perhaps you eat your food before
>paying for it, to see if it was good, and then puke it up and eat it again
>after you have paid. 

That was a stupid example. But i'd usually ask someone else their opinion on a 
meal before i buy it.

>And of course before you pay for that life insurance
>policy, you're going to have to die a few times to make sure it will pay
>off. I know a few software companies and programmers who would love to
>help out on that last part...
>michael
>

You are talking about permantly pirating a piece of software, which is not 
what the guy was talking about. You are either ignorant of the practices 
behind what i would call temporary pirating or are very well-to-do and can 
afford any software you buy without even trying it.  Personally, if more 
companies would release demos (Like Caligari and their truespace demos) i 
wouldn't pirate.

However, a lot of companies do makes demos (like game companies) my question 
is why did he even pirate MDK or Redneck Rampage. There were demos of the 
games out and even my 13 year-old nephew could tell that those games were 
shallow and not worth buying.