🚀 go-pugleaf

Michael M. Eilers wrote:
> 
> In article <34448505...@news.erols.com>, iDl...@Juno.com wrote:
> 
> > >Actually they are anything but free.  By STEALING these games you drive the
> > >prices up in the long run for those of us who PAY for our games.  If you
> > >must STEAL please do so in a place where PROSECUTION is possible.  Maybe if
> >
> > Not that I endorse Piracy or anything, but why do you say it's
> > 'anything but free'?
> >
> > The people that Pirate software will most likely continue pirating
> > software.  Price doesn't effect them.
> 
> Actually, it is pretty funny, but piracy is extremely expensive--in many
> way more expensive than buying the actual software. If you consider that
> the really hardcore WaReZ traders usually have dual-channel ISDN, a CD-ROM
> burner and 8 gigs of hard drive space, these costs add up. Even a
> small-timer that just grabs stuff off hotline sites will spend more money
> on online time and disk space than they would have on games. Putting
> WarCraft II on my hard drive takes up $60 worth of space in cost per
> megabyte, VS. $40 for the game itself--and this gets even worse with
> video-intensive games like Wing IV and C & C. I finally talked a friend of
> mine out of prating when he realized that he had bought 3 Jaz cartidges
> (+$300) just to hold a half-dozen games that would have cost him $220 to
> pay cash for.

online time?  all ISP's nowadays use flat rates (monthly rates).  I pay
$15 a month for unlimited, and usually stay onlien for 8 hours, not
costing me anything for the time.