Bill Bennett
Bill Bennett
For some reason that I cannot rationalise, I woke up today thinking about this ancient story from my website and wondered “is this still the case?” and if it is (or isn’t) does anyone care anymore? And by ‘anyone’ I’m including Microsoft.
Bob LeFridge :tinoflag: Go Otepoti!
Even in 2014 there were no PC assemblers in Dunedin, as far as I know. The people who bought computers retail had no OS choice, and those of us who bought bits tended to buy online from Auckland companies.
Any pirating in Dn would've been geek-to-geek and low key.
Potato ENTHUSIAST @billbennett pretty good considering how badly served NZ was for software pricing, streaming music, video....
Potato ENTHUSIAST @billbennett Also, the context was only about 5 years after the copyright act amendments.
Carl B Latro Hmm. It's different now. I heard Steam was developed to get around gaming piracy. And then it became a cash-cow due to its 30% take of every sale. And getting your smartphone apps from the approved app-stores has the same effect. Ease of access and free (except for the adverts) also plays into it.
Potato ENTHUSIAST @billbennett I'm trying to remember the old "Internet Project" reports, and whether there was just less online literacy in the south back then