Engine dyno software. Anything good on the Internet?

jerry6 said

And let's be honest here, if digital property was sold at a pricepoint which reflected the fact that there are no overheads to maintain, running costs, distribution costs or any other normal expenditures associated with running a business then there would be a lot more people willing to pay for the legitimate copy.

For example if a DVD quality movie cost $3.50 from an online store for direct download. you'd get a lot fewer people pirating the $28 DVD someone bought at walmart. "
So a car costs 50-k , but only 10k to produce , better steal it now , right ? You don't like the price , don't buy it , write your own program .

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Did you even read what i wrote?

There's stealing where you take something from a person so they no longer have it. then there's copying something so that they still have it, and you have an identical copy.

Making a digital copy of a program costs nothing. not a cent $0.00.

compared to the car which costs $10,000.00. You can't copy it for $0.00 no matter what you do.

If you're going to make comparisons, make comparisons that are actually worth something and aren't riddles with inconsistencies.


Let's go back to the DVD, costs $28 because you have to get the physical disk to the store. have someone make the cover, the box to put it in. all the manufacturing crap that makes it expensive. and you make a profit of about $3.50 on each disk

Or you could just sell it as an online download for $3.50, you don't even have to do anything except pay a few dollars a month for server upkeep and people probably wouldn't pirate it coz it's cheap and well worth the money.

You mentioned that recording a movie onto your VHS tape is legal for personal use.

NEWS FLASH. making a copy of a software program is the exact same thing just done on a different medium (hard drive vs video tape). You can't logically condemn one and defend the other without being a hypocrite.