Comments on: BSA Poll: 60% of College Students Know Where to Download Software Illegally

By: mountain_rage

mountain_rage — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

Wouldn’t it be great if students could afford 700$ pieces of software. Do they expect students to pay 100$ for a 1 year license? Not likely. Students try and save anyway they can and if software is required for their class they will definitely pirate it. Personally for software I mostly use open source solutions currently all software on my computer is legitimate.

By: flyingrhino

flyingrhino — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

funny how no one mentioned that there’s tons of freeware alternatives out there and some good stuff at that.
openoffice faststone avg adaware audacity paint.net to name a few

i personally use all of the above and am very happy.

By: BFeely

BFeely — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

BSA does not want you to know about those programs for obvious reasons…

By: altum

altum — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

The survey mentioned is misleading.

“60% of the students told pollsters they “know where to go on the Internet to download software for free or at a discount.””

They didn’t specify that the software wasn’t freeware nor that the discount places were not legit. Most students know they can get discount software from their college like Microsoft Student Alliance. They are just trying to scare people with retarded logic.

By: Lehk

Lehk — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

In other news 40% of college students lie when answering polls.