Not that I do, or condone, or support, advocate, etc. piracy of computer software — but let’s just speak in the hypothetical.
Let’s say I was downloading an ISO (Disc Image…for disc copying) of a game I have whose disc is scratched so the game won’t play. I downloaded it, burned the ISO in my DVD-R, and it turns out it’s fucking ENCARTA 2006!!!! What the hell is ANYONE going to need this for when you have the internet??? And furthermore why was Encarta 2006 masquerading as Civilization IV (the game I was TRYING to download)? So I downloaded a different ISO, it was an archive. When the download finished, 2 GB later, I opened it and it was some OTHER game!?!? Double-U Tee Eff!
Again, I’m not advocating game piracy, but why would someone go through all the trouble to make their ISO look like it’s the ISO of something else?? You can’t tell me it’s ignorance because there’s no way you could confuse Civilization IV with Encarta 2006. They don’t *gain* anything by doing it. It’s just shear malice.
Ergh… people piss me off. Especially immature teenagers who are probably coming up with new ways to perpetrate frustrations on me.
Jay & Silent Bob had it right…. earn a lot of money, and get the name and addresses of every one of those little punks and fly around the US and rabbit-punch every one of them in the face.
I mean, for fuck’s sake! If you’re going to go through all the trouble of faking an ISO, at *LEAST* do what we may or may not have done back in the day and put trojan horse virii into em! That way you can have fun! (not that we ever did that…)
Fucky!
Tags: ass-hats, piracy, SIWOTI
Categories: Geekery, Rants
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