**Goes off to break petty laws**WrongSprite said:Well that's what it comes down to, if you don't care, then break them.seydaman said:And fuk yo laws.
Tee hee I J-walked
**Goes off to break petty laws**WrongSprite said:Well that's what it comes down to, if you don't care, then break them.seydaman said:And fuk yo laws.
when i download a game i wouldnt have played otherwise, is that taking anything from anyone? no. it's not.MiracleOfSound said:I can't afford a Ferrari, but that doesn't mean I'd go out and fucking steal one.
Pirates are thieving assholes. Period.
I completely agree.FutureJarhead16 said:I love being a pirate. I do what I want because a pirate is free. I am a pirate ARG!
Edit: Hmm people talk about feeling "guilty" I feel no such feelings. Is this stange?![]()
Piracy IS theft. You are taking away potential profits from the company that owns the copyright for that product.REPLAY13 said:when i download a game i wouldnt have played otherwise, is that taking anything from anyone? no. it's not.MiracleOfSound said:I can't afford a Ferrari, but that doesn't mean I'd go out and fucking steal one.
Pirates are thieving assholes. Period.
if you went and stole a ferrari, is that taking something from someone? well.. yeah. that's stealing
piracy =/= theft.
but if I had no intention of buying the game, then pirating it has no effect at all on the profits. at the end of the day, if i like a game I'll buy it. if I'm not sure, I'll pirate it then buy it if I like it.midget_roxx said:Piracy IS theft. You are taking away potential profits from the company that owns the copyright for that product.REPLAY13 said:when i download a game i wouldnt have played otherwise, is that taking anything from anyone? no. it's not.MiracleOfSound said:I can't afford a Ferrari, but that doesn't mean I'd go out and fucking steal one.
Pirates are thieving assholes. Period.
if you went and stole a ferrari, is that taking something from someone? well.. yeah. that's stealing
piracy =/= theft.
There is a reason why piracy is illegal. Because it's theftREPLAY13 said:but if I had no intention of buying the game, then pirating it has no effect at all on the profits. at the end of the day, if i like a game I'll buy it. if I'm not sure, I'll pirate it then buy it if I like it.
no one is selling these games as there own there playing them and their downloading big titles like modern warfare and other big titlesMelasZepheos said:Or else they'd say, 'this is our creative output, and we have a right to it.'TruthMan said:and i bet that if you told the developers that they'd say "sure go ahead and download it appreciate our art" they have nothing to gain and so nothing is lost.MelasZepheos said:
I'm a writer and musician (who doesn't get a paycheck nearly as often as he needs to) and if I knew somebody was illegally reprinting my poems or short stories then I'd be massively pissed.
Also, if I ever manage to get a book published (response from an agent in a week) then I would hate to think that people were stealing it instead of buying it, or plaigirising it instead of writing their own, or any other number of ways you can steal someone's creation.
I side with the devs on this one, because it's my (their) work, and I (they) have a right to receive money for it, and stealing it is just wrong.
It's not acceptable to say 'oh, but I wouldn't have bought it so they wouldn't have received the money for it anyway, that makes it okay.' No it doesn't!
And just from another standpoint, it's illegal. You are breaking the law if you pirate/steal/plaigirise, thus are a criminal, and I don't have much time for criminals.
Well of course, that goes both ways!krazymouse said:LIFE IS NOT FAIR!