Re: [SLUG] Warez, Pirates and Bootlegs, Oh My!

From: Chuck Hast (wchast@gmail.com)
Date: Tue May 30 2006 - 18:07:58 EDT


On 5/30/06, Paul M Foster <paulf@quillandmouse.com> wrote:
> Chuck Hast wrote:
> > On 5/30/06, Paul M Foster <paulf@quillandmouse.com> wrote:
>
> <snip>
>
> >
> > Paul,
> > I am the cause of this mess, my initial try was to sign up with a site and
> > pay for the product (Kazaa) what they did not inform me was that when
> > I signed up their product was OS (windows) dependent. Once I had
> > given them a CC THEN I found out that I needed to be running that other
> > OS in order to do the downloads. So far my attempt to pull down a par-
> > ticular old movie has been met with frustration, indeed I have tried to
> > go rent the thing and none of the rentals carries it locally. I will
> > have to
> > purchase the DVD and have it shipped to me. I was just hoping that I
> > could pay something, obtain some form of token to download the movie
> > of interest and then let my wife watch it, but all so far met with
> > frustration.
> >
> > I am going to continue to see if I can find a site that will allow me to
> > get what I am looking for with proper payment.
> >
>
> Understand, I'm not particularly pointing fingers at anyone. I've
> followed your thread, but it means little to me since I've never
> downloaded stuff like that or that way. I don't know if what's going on
> is proper or not. I'm just concerned that we don't get out of bounds on it.
>

Yes, that is why I am just going to order it from netflix until I can find a
good source that is not OS dependent.

-- 
Chuck Hast  -- KP4DJT --
To paraphrase my flight instructor;
"the only dumb question is the one you DID NOT ask resulting in my going
out and having to identify your bits and pieces in the midst of torn
and twisted metal."
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