Symantec sues over software piracy

What companies are they suing? It's sort of hard to comment when you don't know the whole story.

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Symantec alleges the companies (of) "...unfair competition..."

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Originally posted by kjvsword:

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What companies are they suing? It's sort of hard to comment when you don't know the whole story.

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I wouldn't pirate Symnatec software it's junk to begin with.

psh.. who would pirate symanctec? ill take some ghost software, but your antivirus, well, shoudl we say... THAR SHE BLOWS!

Ugh. I can't believe people would pirate Symantec software at all. If you are gonna pirate anything, make it NOD32 right? I'd rather see people use free AVG or Avast! on their PC (and if you own a business but don't want to pay licensing, use ClamWin).

After using Ubuntu for the past month, I have very few reasons to use Windows, and I use Ubuntu primarily now. I've always tried to avoid pirating software for the past 2 years now (not because I feel bad, but to minimise risks in the future). There are usually open source/free software that's equal or superior to commercial stuff. I stopped pirating Photoshop and use Gimp entirely and I will only use Inkscape or another free software for vector graphics, etc.

With the amount of free legal software out there (especially GPL software), I see no reason for people to pirate their software. And for most games, you get the on-line experience if you purchase the game and there are few to no workarounds for that for pirates.

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like buying a 5 year AV from bestbuy or whoever for 40$ if you dont sale our sht at retail price and give us a cut we are going to sue!!


God forbid they sale new Avs for a reasonable price 50+ is insane.

Originally posted by ZIppyDSM:

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like buying a 5 year AV from bestbuy or whoever for 40$ if you dont sale our sht at retail price and give us a cut we are going to sue!!


God forbid they sale new Avs for a reasonable price 50+ is insane.

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We should be suing them for the crap they made people fall for in regards to the new version of NIS 2007. although i bought it cheap its not worth even the $45 i payed for it.

How is it their right to sue for "False Advertising?" Are these companies bragging that they are using the software?

I have thought of using eDirectsoftware.com and a friend of mine did. His software came to him as a Gateway computer OEM disc that was clearly NOT a fake.

Seems to me that they are arguing the same thing Microsoft did which is that only certain types of sales can be made to certain purchasers. MS says that even if the disc is Authentic that the software is not if it is bought by a private consumer and was meant for a system builder or PC company. Seems like this is also going to be Symantec-Bloats theory as well.

Oh well... I only use Ghost from them. Dumped the other crap awhile back.

Originally posted by duckNrun:

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I have thought of using eDirectsoftware.com and a friend of mine did. His software came to him as a Gateway computer OEM disc that was clearly NOT a fake.

Seems to me that they are arguing the same thing Microsoft did which is that only certain types of sales can be made to certain purchasers. MS says that even if the disc is Authentic that the software is not if it is bought by a private consumer and was meant for a system builder or PC company. Seems like this is also going to be Symantec-Bloats theory as well.

Oh well... I only use Ghost from them. Dumped the other crap awhile back.

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I love ebay if I wanted it I could get Norton IS 07 for 24$ and SW for under 30.

really they need to learn whatever their price scheme is is to damn high and halve the price.

In my own opinion they are lucky somebody is willing to pirate Norton and their other products because they really suck. I dont know whos winning the suckiest anti-virus race them or McAfee lol. They are the main ones when a virus and so forth gets in your pc it doesnt detect it until its done its damage. lol