Quote Originally Posted by CLW View Post
wow. it used to be silly viruses you had to watch out for. now these kids living in the basement are just into stealing stuff.
For one thing, it's not kids in basements. It's software engineers fuckin' around in their spare time. Believe me, these aren't little kids, these are grown men that just enjoy the challenge of hacking something.

Now, as for stealing stuff, pirating has proven to be, if nothing else, a gateway to people actually buying the product. The people that pirate things and then never buy them, most likely, weren't going to buy them to begin with.