Today I encountered a commenter on Cerulean Studios’ blog, named John, who stated the following:

I’ll be honest and say that I’m one of many who have pirated an alpha build of Astra without an Astra account. I do realize that I’m missing a number of features but… I don’t feel like I’ve lost out. I upgraded to Windows Vista when it launched and wanted a pretty new IM client… and Astra was the top choice.

John also went on to state a caveat to all other pirates who would dare steal Cerulean Studios’ next flagship product, Trillian Astra, that in its essence said that the alpha build had a lot of bugs and the user pirates at his or her own risk. He also stated that there is no reason for anyone to want to get in on an alpha program to quickly. To his statements, I must ask: When is piracy okay?

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