Why does Apple care if you pirate an old version of OSX?

[chrono1081]

you will go to hell for stealing and spend eternity carrying buckets of molten sulphur around while being stabbed by naked red demons thrusting their fork things and who knows what else at you.

:d

 

[flyfish29]

I was thinking my local Jeep dealer should let me "pirate" a used Jeep for sale on the lot!

That model design has been discontinued, improved, and changed dramatically, so I will gladly take the Jeep of their hands!

Jeep won't mind cause they don't make any money off it anymore!

 

[Apple OC]

Why does Apple care if you pirate an old version of OSX?

Seriously ... you are asking this question because you do not know why Apple would care if you bootleg their software?

answer this ... why do companies want to be paid for software?

 

[iThinkergoiMac]

I was thinking my local Jeep dealer should let me "pirate" a used Jeep for sale on the lot!

That model design has been discontinued, improved, and changed dramatically, so I will gladly take the Jeep of their hands!

Jeep won't mind cause they don't make any money off it anymore!

But of course that means that dealership doesn't have that Jeep anymore if you "pirate" it. When you pirate software, there are no fewer copies of that software available, just one less possible buyer (you). It may not even reduce the available number of buyers if you wouldn't/couldn't have bought it. If a poor college student who is barely making his bills pirates CS5, Adobe hasn't lost a buyer since the student couldn't have afforded it anyway. That's not a justification of piracy by any stretch of the imagination, but pirating software is not equivalent to stealing physical objects.

 

[stev3n]

Napster Bad, Metallica Good!

 

[flyfish29]

But of course that means that dealership doesn't have that Jeep anymore if you "pirate" it. When you pirate software, there are no fewer copies of that software available, just one less possible buyer (you). It may not even reduce the available number of buyers if you wouldn't/couldn't have bought it. If a poor college student who is barely making his bills pirates CS5, Adobe hasn't lost a buyer since the student couldn't have afforded it anyway. That's not a justification of piracy by any stretch of the imagination, but pirating software is not equivalent to stealing physical objects.

I do know it isn't the same and really I was being sarcastic and never said it was equivalent!

However, taking your reasoning one could relate it to a service pretty easily. A hairstylist is on the clock for 8 hours, they don't have any customers scheduled who can pay for the haircut in the next 10 minutes, but a college kid comes in with no money for a haircut, should the stylist provide them the cut anyway?

The hairsalon "hasn't lost a buyer since the student couldn't have afforded it anyway!" (as quoted from your post)

Is that more equivalent for ya?

 

[stroked]

I do know it isn't the same and really I was being sarcastic and never said it was equivalent!

However, taking your reasoning one could relate it to a service pretty easily. A hairstylist is on the clock for 8 hours, they don't have any customers scheduled who can pay for the haircut in the next 10 minutes, but a college kid comes in with no money for a haircut, should the stylist provide them the cut anyway?

That is a better analogy than your first one.
The hairsalon "hasn't lost a buyer since the student couldn't have afforded it anyway!" (as quoted from your post)

Is that more equivalent for ya?

That is a better analogy than your first one...