Robbie Richmond

UK

Manager

There is no excuse for someone to use pirated copies of software, even if they 'cannot afford it'.

If someone can't afford a Windows licence, use Linux. Can't afford Office? Use SunOffice or OpenOffice or Microsoft Works. There are countless alternatives for less money - and perhaps less functionality - so this can't be a legitimate excuse.

Neither is the fact that the piracy happens through incompetence - if I drive a car incompetently, and end up speeding, how would that be taken as an excuse? Like it or lump it, software companies have a right to be paid for their intellectual property - that's the law.