{"id":1947,"date":"2010-02-20T01:31:34","date_gmt":"2010-02-20T00:31:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.maurograziani.org\/wordpress\/?p=1947"},"modified":"2025-08-22T18:14:35","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T16:14:35","slug":"pirating-vs-buying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maurograziani.org\/wordpress\/archives\/1947","title":{"rendered":"Pirating vs buying"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This funny chart (found on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2010\/02\/18\/infographic-buying-d.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Boing Boing<\/a>) does a superb job of explaining how the insertion of a lot of &#8220;business model&#8221; (FBI warnings, unskippable trailers, THX vanity sequences) makes buying a DVD a lot worse than pirating the same disc online (click image to enlarge).<\/p>\n<p>A side effect is that only the legitimate customers can see the FBI warnings.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/maurograziani.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/gxzev.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1948\" title=\"gxzev\" src=\"https:\/\/maurograziani.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/gxzev.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"515\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The same (or worse) happens with the games. I bough a PC game to play on the train (I move 2\/3 days a week) and I <strong>must<\/strong> carry the original CD-Rom with me to start the game, at high risk.<\/p>\n<p>Of course the pirated copy starts without any CD. The customer pay to buy the game and must suffer all the annoyances. A pirate don&#8217;t pay and has no problems. It&#8217;s a no win situation&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"related-posts\">\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This funny chart (found on Boing Boing) does a superb job of explaining how the insertion of a lot of &#8220;business model&#8221; (FBI warnings, unskippable trailers, THX vanity sequences) makes buying a DVD a lot worse than pirating the same &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maurograziani.org\/wordpress\/archives\/1947\">Continua a leggere<span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1002],"class_list":["post-1947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-societa","tag-copyright"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maurograziani.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1947"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maurograziani.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maurograziani.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maurograziani.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maurograziani.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1947"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maurograziani.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19453,"href":"https:\/\/maurograziani.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1947\/revisions\/19453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maurograziani.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maurograziani.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maurograziani.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}