I’ve been thinking the past few days since I had the original conversation with my friend from yester-year and wrote the article New Dog, Old Tricks.  Specifically I have been thinking back over what I wrote and that there were some other things I wanted to mention that I didn’t touch upon. A few things that I didn’t hit on that I thought would be good to write a follow-up article about was that of using obsolete software on newer machines or newer software on obsolete machines. Aside from the fact that those who are stealing music and/or software opening themselves up to all sorts of headaches such as viruses, Trojans and computer hackers, there is also the issue of most software developers now placing more means of thwarting software piracy. (more…)