I am the most anal-retentive Mac-junkie you may ever meet, one of my biggest pet peeves is when someone touches my MacBook monitor with their finger and leaves a greasy smudge! Don’t worry, I recognize that this is just a petty issue and I normally don’t even mention it to the perpetrator. But there is a much bigger elephant in the room: using Lime Wire or, for that matter, ANY illegal downloading software. Nothing gets me more upset than seeing a beautiful, expensive, state of the art piece of machinery being destroyed by illegal software!
Since the first time I was screwed by the monster’s grandfather, Napster, I have always loathed music downloading software. All it brings is problems! I watched it eat away at my old Dell machine years ago and even today, I see the same thing happening to my friends. To boot, they don’t even seem to care! When I try to explain it to them all I hear is cries of, “Oh no, it won’t happen to me” and “I only download it for a couple hours every few weeks and then delete it right after.”
When you download files through this type of freeware, you are directly accessing the files from someone else’s computer. What most users don’t realize is that hundreds of other people are doing the same to their own computer; remotely accessing it without their knowledge or consent. Therefore the firewalls are non-existent and absolutely nothing lies between them and evil-minded hackers.
So please, this is my cry to all Mac users out there: DO NOT USE ILLEGAL DOWNLOADING SOFTWARE! It will literally eat away at your computer for months without you realizing. I’m not saying that it all hits in one day; it’s actually a very gradual process. I saw it happen to my cousin’s MacBook Pro, she never listened to me. It all began with minor start up issues, such as extended blue screen and then it progressed until her computer wouldn’t even turn on. In the end, she gave up, leaving her once great, MacBook Pro to gather dust in the corner and began using her desktop again. I simply don’t understand how anyone can let their computer fall to the wayside for a couple free songs.
This isn’t the end and I don’t come empty handed, I have a solution! You can purchase, for a nominal fee, iPod backup software that is completely safe. Whenever one of your friends comes by, plug in their iPod and take all the songs you like! So easy a caveman could do it! Even my boyfriend, after a few weeks, had already accumulated 6,000 songs. And if you don’t have any friends with good music on their iPods, well, then I guess you’re out of luck. But at least your computer will still be working 4 months from now.
Don’t even get my started on Jailbreaker for iPhone…
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