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Anti-Pirates Newest Weapon Is The Oldest In The Book
Coonskin05 | 2:32 AM on 06.22.2008 19 comments




NARCS.

Damn dirty narcs. This is just all kids of wrong in my book. I mean, I know piracy isn't exactly the most ethical thing you could do, but telling people they could make millions by turning in their friends who they know have not-so-legal copies. They're going to give you a million dollars? Ha fucking ha.

While researching the company behind these ads, I learned this isn't the first time they have used underhanded tactics like this. They publish an annual piracy study to show how much they are losing from pirates, which have been panned by critics as "unworthy of a first year student of statistics".

The above NARC producing ad isn't the only one. According to Wikipedia "Among the more provocative approaches BSA has taken is the Bust Your Boss! campaign that has appeared on billboards, printed publications and on the Internet with the following suggestion: "Is your current or former employer using pirated software in their office? Hit 'em where it really hurts - report their illegal software use today."" Yes, show your employer how loyal you are by reporting him, and lose your sorry job in one fell swoop! Good thinking assholes. This shit just makes me sick.



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Sharpless's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/22/2008 02:55
Sharpless
I'm selling out the RetroForceGO crew! WOOHOO! I'M RICH, BITCHES!
MATTFOO's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/22/2008 03:07
MATTFOO
lol..ya wont catch me breaking the law. There all just backups of games I own.
mistic's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/22/2008 03:15
mistic
they've tried this once in Europe ( I think it was the netherlands, but in the end all cases were dropped because of the way they got the info in the first place )
hpv's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/22/2008 04:50
hpv
You do realize that this isn't about games or your friends having "not-so-legal" copies, right? It's about businesses using pirated BUSINESS software. The people doing that SHOULD be busted and if you're working for such a company you're probably better off not having that job and going somewhere else anyway because there's no way they're treating their employees right if they won't even pay for software that is making them money.
garrfunkel's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/22/2008 06:00
garrfunkel
@MISTIC:

I love the netherlands. They legalise prostitution and the like and then try to clamp down on software piracy. When will they learn.
Red TheHaze Veron's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/22/2008 07:10
Red TheHaze Veron
snitching bastards.
Maurice Tan's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/22/2008 08:36
Maurice Tan
Oh Stasi, when will you learn.
Aaron Mxy Yost's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/22/2008 09:24
Aaron Mxy Yost
When I read the title I thought this was about sea-faring scurvy-riddled pirates, so by anti-pirates I assumed you meant the British navy or ninjas.
the GAMEGOBLIN's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/22/2008 11:38
the GAMEGOBLIN
NARC was a terrible game :(
007's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/22/2008 12:45
007
so... where's the anti-pirate weapon you've been talking about? Is it the BFG 9000? I heard those work pretty well.
DaedHead8's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/22/2008 12:50
DaedHead8
1,000,000? pffft I've saved more money than that by pirating.
Gangles's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/22/2008 12:54
Gangles
We can only hope that this pushes more companies to use open source software! None of this hassle.
dephect's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/22/2008 13:27
dephect
NARC was an amazing game... well the NES version...
kyrengraves's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/22/2008 16:11
kyrengraves
@Dephect:

The NES one was the shit. Kinky Pinky gave me nightmares for a week back in the day.
MechaMonkey's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/22/2008 20:40
MechaMonkey
I ain't no stoolie.
Brian Szabelski's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/22/2008 22:48
Brian Szabelski
A million dollars is not enough. Maybe 1 billion dollars?
Skribble's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/22/2008 23:52
Skribble
@HPV: Wrong dude. I've worked for 3 companies who have all used illegal software and the companies have been more than friendly and professional towards me, and were also some of the highest paying jobs I've had.

The fact is it costs thousands and thousands of dollars for licenses; they are ridiculously expensive. My boss is paying something like 40 thousand dollars a year just for our Adobe software, we also have business license for XP and Office. Having 100% legitimate copies of software is just not doable for anyone other than high profit companies.
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