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The good thing about moving apps onto the web, is that it gives centralized control, and gets rid of the concept of software piracy. Sure you could hack the website, or steal an account possibly, but that's easy enough to fix once found.

I think 'software piracy' is such a broad term there's no easy way to have a blanket opinion on it. Copying DVDs and cover art and selling hard copies is clearly wrong. But say preventing a machine from emitting UDP packets so you can run 2 copies of the same software on a home network... Well, the only person who even knows about that piracy is yourself, and if you didn't do it, you probably wouldn't buy 2 copies anyway. In that instance there is no damage, no lost sale, and so I'd say it was ok.



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