Not being bitter even. ^^ Or emo. Springing from a WoW discussion, also posted to facebook, but it's different people here. I have a question for my friend's list
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Did you also "lose" your backup? If you failed to create one, you're an idiot. But with the way technology is today (Can we say "Steam"?) the vendor should be able to provide you with a legit copy if you do legitimately "lose" your's. If you "lose" it because you "gave" it away, you're an idiot and a potential scammer. Or gullible.
I guess I got away from the question. No, not morally wrong. Just stupid.
It depends on the situation. If you buy a Windows XP CD, install it, then lose the CD and your hard drive dies, yeah. Pirate the hell out of that. But you put "lose" in quotes. If by "lose" you mean "gave away", or whatever, then it's much more morally ambiguous.
I had "lose" in quotes to just cover a variety of situations and meanings of the word. I do mean honestly lose, but I mean to cover everything from "computer crashes without backup" to "computer crashes and the backup is corrupt" (which has happened to me :x) to "it needs an actual CD (and I don't have a crack) and the CD / CD key got lost during moving" to I-don't-know-what, like ... data gremlins or something.
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If you failed to create one, you're an idiot. But with the way technology is today (Can we say "Steam"?) the vendor should be able to provide you with a legit copy if you do legitimately "lose" your's.
If you "lose" it because you "gave" it away, you're an idiot and a potential scammer. Or gullible.
I guess I got away from the question. No, not morally wrong. Just stupid.
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