A valid thought about piracy

The Perils of Copy Protection

Tech companies handcuff our files to protect against digital pirates. The strategy isn't just annoying for customers—it could be hurting sales.

---- Article by David Pogue

I think David Pogue makes a valid conclusion.

Allowing people easier access to material gives them less reason to gripe and feel justified in stealing it. Also, many people download pirated material because it gives them a satisfaction in using illicit avenues to find it and download it.  Taking away the rush of the theft mitigates the reason to do it.

People develop a pattern and rarely stray from it even when facing major consequences. Adding copy protection invites people to crack it and show off their skills to the world. If it was made by man it can be destroyed by man.

 Education and compromise always creates a better outcome than suing someone. 

5 Zombie traits you need to learn, right now!

Persistence

With just the smallest pinch of resistance, the average person is willing to give up on any goal.

But, I ask you, what could be a bigger roadblock to action, then death. Being a zombie is about beating the odds.

When a zombie is shot they will lurch to the ground, wiggle a little bit for dramatic purposes, and boom they are up again running towards their goal. Sadly, that goal is to eat us, but who am I to judge?

 Just because you have no experience, no qualifications and no education, you might think, I can’t be President of the United States. But, I ask you, where we would be if George Bush didn’t pull from his inner Zombie and achieve the absurd. Remember, he fought the Zombies over there, so we wouldn’t have to fight them over here.

Non-Judgmental

We go around thinking “I hate those people because he’s brown, she’s a Christian and it’s a Wiccan.”

Yet, the average Zombie has no room in his non beating heart for prejudice.

At the start of any apocalypse, a zombie will come into contact with thousands of people of all different creeds, races and nationalities, but he won’t waste time trying to figure out which people it can identify with, because it is too busy separating the weak and the sick from the running mob.

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