<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>fogihujy</author><text>In Finland (and probably elsewhere as well), people have the right to make physical copies of copyrighted works, for private use, and private use extends as far as giving copies to family and close friends. That means we copied a _lot_ of tapes in the 80&amp;#x27;s. Legally.&lt;p&gt;That mentality simply carried over when the IT boom hit and back then it didn&amp;#x27;t occur to anyone that copying was a bad thing.</text><parent_chain><item><author>seer</author><text>Used to pirate a lot as a poor kid in eastern europe, as there was no way I could either afford it, find a legal copy or both. Now as a paid developer I always buy the software &amp;#x2F; games I use, as its much less of a hustle, and I’d like to support the people whose work I’m using.&lt;p&gt;But I still have some friends that never buy anything digital, after being brought up on pirated software they would describe buying it as “nauseous”. They might own multiple cars and expensive real estate, but still pirate their windows as a matter of principle.&lt;p&gt;I have a feeling a lot of kids brought up in eastern europe have similar sensibilities.</text></item><item><author>tw04</author><text>I know I might be in the minority, but I just wish we could stop at semi-difficult license keys.&lt;p&gt;When I was poor in college, either I would pirate a game or just not play it because there was just no way I could ever afford it.&lt;p&gt;Now as a grown up I&amp;#x27;d much rather pay for the game both to support the creator as well as not roll the dice on a backdoored keygen.&lt;p&gt;I HAVE to believe that the number of folks that can both afford to buy the game and would buy the game, but would try to pirate first, is a fraction of a percent of the market.&lt;p&gt;Please stop punishing your fans :&amp;#x2F;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Resident Evil Village crack completely fixes its stuttering issues</title><url>https://www.dsogaming.com/news/resident-evil-village-crack-completely-fixes-its-stuttering-issues/</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dijit</author><text>My ex-girlfriend (Estonian) will not buy software because to her it&amp;#x27;s not &amp;quot;worth money&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;So, similar mentality. I ended up buying all her software (Office, photoshop etc;) but she said it was a waste of money.</text><parent_chain><item><author>seer</author><text>Used to pirate a lot as a poor kid in eastern europe, as there was no way I could either afford it, find a legal copy or both. Now as a paid developer I always buy the software &amp;#x2F; games I use, as its much less of a hustle, and I’d like to support the people whose work I’m using.&lt;p&gt;But I still have some friends that never buy anything digital, after being brought up on pirated software they would describe buying it as “nauseous”. They might own multiple cars and expensive real estate, but still pirate their windows as a matter of principle.&lt;p&gt;I have a feeling a lot of kids brought up in eastern europe have similar sensibilities.</text></item><item><author>tw04</author><text>I know I might be in the minority, but I just wish we could stop at semi-difficult license keys.&lt;p&gt;When I was poor in college, either I would pirate a game or just not play it because there was just no way I could ever afford it.&lt;p&gt;Now as a grown up I&amp;#x27;d much rather pay for the game both to support the creator as well as not roll the dice on a backdoored keygen.&lt;p&gt;I HAVE to believe that the number of folks that can both afford to buy the game and would buy the game, but would try to pirate first, is a fraction of a percent of the market.&lt;p&gt;Please stop punishing your fans :&amp;#x2F;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Resident Evil Village crack completely fixes its stuttering issues</title><url>https://www.dsogaming.com/news/resident-evil-village-crack-completely-fixes-its-stuttering-issues/</url></story>