Recent content by mercutio22

As if I had said otherwise: the statistics are a counter-argument to none of my assertions. Acknowleged: see for instance post 17, paragraph 2.

I never said stealing was right, I just said you have to take the context to measure right and wrong. You obviously have a problem with that. I agree that stealing is wrong in some circumstances, in others its unfortunate but necessary. Now when I say necessary, I don't mean it in the sense of a...

"mercutio22, I recomend you read my article more carefully. It's not just foreign publishers and developers that lose out as a consequence of piracy (and 'corrupt foreign goverments'), but the whole of the Brazilian society. Maybe gamers, who enjoy the benefits of piracy, end up with a postive...

"The piracy epidemic only came about with the combination of exceptionally high taxes (EGM Brazil estimated in their March 2005 edition that at least 45 percent of the price of a PC game consisted of taxes), the low income of most Brazilians, the lack of an effective government anti-piracy...