Our View on Software Piracy

We interrupt our regularly scheduled Shadow programming for a public service announcement. =D

Over the last few months, we’ve had some software piracy issues to deal with in our forums, meaning - people were posting about ways to get software for free that usually costs money.

AllShadow.com doesn’t support or condone piracy for the following reasons:

1. There’s already a plethora of free applications out there, many of which we post about
2. The “premium” software that does cost money costs about $10-20 - that’s like the cost of two lunches
3. Piracy can lead to legal action against AllShadow.com (it’s true, and we’ve already been threatened)
4. Pirating software discourages innovation by forcing developers to go out of business
5. One of the ways that you can support this site is to use our fantastic software store

The moderators have been given the power to ban anyone who participates in software pirating.

Many thanks to everyone for their understanding about this; it’s a really important issue. And back to our regularly scheduled programming!

One more thing: We do not consider modifying/posting ROMs to be software piracy. And by ROM, we’re referring to the batch of files which make up an operating system (like the Windows Mobile 6.1 ROM, for example.)

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Monday, August 18th, 2008 General

12 Comments to Our View on Software Piracy

Paul
August 18, 2008

I am surprised that this announcement even needs to go out. If someone wants to pirate software there are a plethora of other sites, that specialize in said dept. and this site is clearly not one dedicated to piracy of software of any kind (hell, why would there be a store if it would).

ruiner9
August 18, 2008

I think you may want to clarify what you mean by ROMs. Most people outside the WM6.1 scene will see ROMs and think that means game files for the NES or SNES. Nintendo is pretty adamant about taking action when that stuff is posted publicly.

d4rkwing
August 18, 2008

I stole my Shadow. Does this mean I can’t visit anymore?

kalvindawg
August 18, 2008

Yeah i am a musician and piracy sucks

James
August 18, 2008

Very funny post.

ShadowMike
August 18, 2008

This is The MOD from the forums.
The post from the user pretending to be me has been removed.
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Now…

Just play by the rules. Everyone will have a good time and this is what makes the world go round.

Alan
August 18, 2008

where are you guys eating lunch? jeeze!

Mike Benton
August 18, 2008

d4rkwing, we know who you are and some masked men will be knocking on your door shortly… :)

sda
August 19, 2008

mike come on some pirates are masked men so by suggesting some masked men are going to the dudes house are you not condoning piracy lol

Mike Benton
August 20, 2008

These masked men are ninjas.

Exodus
August 21, 2008

Thats too bad you feel that way it’s piracy anymore that keeps the monoplizing industry at Bay! without the consumer’s fight back DVD’s would be upward of $50 Audio CD’s would go back to being more than $20 a CD, Video Games would be back to the $70-$80(SNES) Range or more, The best software out there is being produced by large corporations who continue to get larger, while individuals who developed for free decide to finally charge by feeding you some bullshit about donating to the Blind so you feel better about updating to their newest version that only got a prettier GUI I have yet to every buy a Single piece of software over the last 14 years and I refuse to any time soon
PhRoZeN 4 LiFe

Pvgomer
August 26, 2008

WHAAAAA!

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