MPAA Now Unable to Afford Basic Software

[Cyber Dog]

All the P2P pirating is apparently taking its toll, as it seems the MPAA is now unable to even pay for simple PDF software (despite constantly suing the pants off their own customers). I was browsing the MPAA press releases when I noticed the most recent release (Dec 8th 2005) contains a large watermark as follows:

"Buy Now to Create PDF without Trial Watermark!!"..."Created by eDocPrinter PDF Pro!!".

How very professional of them, using trial software to produce public content. Of course, I suppose at this point we know them better than expecting them to spend $30 on an application for their business when they could just pocket it instead... :no:

http://mpaa.org/MPAAPress/

http://mpaa.org/MPAAPress/2005/2005_12_08.pdf

[macmax]

how about sending them a link for full retail gold version + crack :p

[Krpano]

thats kind funny... :D

[fuel925]

They *could* be doing this to promote trial software as an alternative to pirating software as a means to "try before you buy" a product.

[chopyaedoff]

Or it could be because they are too tight to give money to other people.

btw i thought that PDF was an openly used format because i make a lot of PDF documents in Linux. (Print documents to a PDF printer)

[j.nudd]

Or it could be that they've taken to illegaly pirating software like Adobe.

[P!P]

HAHA. That's great. Shows how much the MPAA sucks, can't even buy software to make PDFs. Which can be made for free.

[bigl523]

pretty sure you need to buy adobe acrobat to make pdfs....

[_I am Reptar]

hahahaha

[thecableguy]

how about sending them a link for full retail gold version + crack :p

are you going use rapidshare? :laugh:

[illicit]

Heh, that is kind of funny to hear. :p

[REM2000]

PDF is an open format, it's the software which creates the PDF which could/can cost the money.

[spartyjohnson]

pretty sure you need to buy adobe acrobat to make pdfs....

Nope. PDFWrite in Java. OpenOffice and StarOffice can made PDF's. There are a few freeware PDF creators as well.

[djesteban]

they will probably sue you for telling the world about this, then they will sue eDocPrinter PDF Pro for sabotage against an official anti-pirate document, then it's going to be neowin's turn... etc.

[hifive]

cutepdf makes it free too.

[Jesse Carlton]

I'm pretty sure it's illegal for corporations to use trial/freeware programs. Being a business they need a business licence for all software they have. Someone should check out the programs eula and website to see if the trial is free for corporate users.

[gnuman]

Silly MPAA, if they were to use Open Office then they would be able to create PDFs right away with the export to PDF option!

[Slimy]

Hahaha. Shows them that some software really does cost too much :rofl:

[Andy07]

how about sending them a link for full retail gold version + crack :p

:rofl:

[primexx]

ROFL

[crimsonhead]

This should go in jokes section :rofl:

[brucebeh]

LOL!!

this is great, funniest thing i've seen all day!!!

[s0nic69]

how about sending them a link for full retail gold version + crack :p

lol, funniest reply on this topic, thanks for making me lol.

[Jeremy1]

I'm pretty sure it's illegal for corporations to use trial/freeware programs.

It's not. But some trial/freeware programs do prohibit corporate use in their licenses. As long as the license doesn't prohibit it, there is no problem with corporations using the software.

[n30w1n]

If anyone here actually laughed out loud at this, you need to get out... Either that or you hate the MPAA way too much for no damn reason. I mean common, who gives a crap? "Oh noes, someone in a huge organization used a trial version to create a document that found it's way online!" This is even sadder than that time when cracked audio editor hex codes were found under some MS Windows sounds. Who. Cares.