as im doing this, the pc of a friend is on its way to recovery. krieste's pc decided to take matters into her own hands and performed an electrical form of suicide, the one that gives you a plain looking black screen (black screen is better than the dreaded Blue Screen of Death (BSOD)). after quite a few hours trying to find out which build of WINXp am i pirating this time(microsoft has this attitude of making so many builds, must have something to do with the number of bugs they put into each release), and succeeding, i decided to take a breather, and it got me to thinking about my life.
that is my life as a pirate of the electronic oceans and seas. yeah, i am one of those bad guys.
i have never paid a single cent regarding the softwares i have used throughout the years. started way back windows 95 until the present, and of course, my # one company of all time, ADOBE, makers of adobe photoshop which i started using way back when they released version 4..
but i should say that i never made money out of my pirating hobby. if truth be known, i shared what i had with my friends, free of charge. of course, this is not an excuse. but thats the truth.
anyway, me and my friends made a deal: that one day, about 5 years from now, we are going to pay back adobe by buying a product. yup, buying it legally.
now, if only i am alive that time, and still have money.
i never wanted to pirate, but then for a third world country such as ours, i and my friends dont really have a choice.
and so i am still a pirate.
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