Nuclearelephant's File Sharing Database

Marik_Steele

<div class="IPBDescription">For pirates who eventually buy the stuff</div> Credits to <a href='http://slashdot.org' target='_blank'>/.</a> for posting the news thingy where I read about this: NuclearElephant has set up a <a href='http://www.nuclearelephant.com/projects/sharing/' target='_blank'>database you can post to</a> to collect info from people who illegally download music, soltware, or software, but then buy it legally because it's so good.

I'm inputting things like mad, particularly things like Planescape: Torment that I had to buy after pirating it (so hard to find out-of-print games). You do have to wait a few minutes between entries, but the site seems to get plenty of activity. It shows the 20 most recently input entries, and by the time I entered my 2nd purchase, my 1st entry had scrolled out of view.

NumbersNotFound

Wow.. peopel are adding like mad. When i saw that earlier there was only like 100 items.

CommunistWithAGun

I warez because well, I don't like the fact I can't try before I buy. And you can't return software. Companies don't care if you like what they make, just as long as you pay for it. I for one never warez a game that has a demo out, and usually use the warez to say "Do I really want to pay for this"




P.S. **** you RIAA.

EEK

Ironically, the bottom of the stats page says 'Reproduction without permission prohibited' <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo-->

taboofires

Rise of Nations is going on the list. And I wouldn't have bought it on a whim (without playing it a bunch first), because I don't like any of the related AOE games.

panda_de_malheureux

The database also needs things you pirated and did not buy afterwards though. The results are uncomparable otherwise.

antifreeze

At this rate it would take me all week to add all my stuff