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Where Is It??
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>Ease of experience
The author of the WhereIsIt? disk cataloging program has an insane restriction on who can buy his software. He absolutely refuses to let you order online if you use a free email account, as seen here
His logic for not allowing the use of free email accounts is beyond stupid: Most freemail providers offer addresses that are both free and anonymous. Such email addresses are very commonly abused for committing fraud and hiding identity, and are not suitable for placing online orders of any kind. He's worried about online fraud, but he accepts payment through PayPal and via some other online payment services. What?
If you insist on using a free email account, he will only send you the software on a CD, via snail mail. I guess he doesn't want my money?
Two possibilities (among many) if you use Windows:
WhereIsIt? http://www.whereisit-soft.com/
Use Windows Media Player to inventory your video files http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-xp/help/windows-media-player/11/library
While this is not about a pirated game, it is about software piracy...
I've commented before about a disk cataloging program called WhereIsIt?. It's a great program (I use it to catalog hundreds of CDs/DVDs/hard drives), so I went to the author's webpage to buy it. It's currently $39.95. Then I found out the author refuses to let people pay for his software if you use a free email account (Gmail, Hotmail, Live, Outlook, Yahoo, etc). His reasoning? Using a freemail account opens the opportunity for online financial fraud, even though he accepts payments via PayPal and other online payment services. If you insist on using a freemail account, the only way you can get his software is on a CD, sent via snail mail. I'm not going to pay, then wait who-knows-how-long for the CD to be shipped thousands of miles, when I could just download it almost instantly.
So, does software piracy cost the industry money? In this case, yes, but the cause of the monetary loss is due to the idiot who makes this particular software, due to his completely stupid policy about freemail accounts. Long story short, I found a copy elsewhere, and the author is out almost $40.
I have paid for other software, by the way, and I've donated money to authors whose software is free. WhereIsIt? hasn't been updated since February 2014; maybe the author can't afford to continue developing WhereIsIt? since he makes it so hard to pay him?