Need some piracy advice....

[Hazy992]

I make it a point to never have friends that are smokers are thieves. Your friend is a thief, and he is thieving willingly. He is no longer your friend. Make him pay.

Did you just compare thieves to smokers?

 

[Owyn_Merrilin]

I make it a point to never have friends that are smokers are thieves. Your friend is a thief, and he is thieving willingly. He is no longer your friend. Make him pay.

Did you just compare thieves to smokers?

Well, it's not like this thread didn't have a huge <link=http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ArsonMurderAndJaywalking>arson, murder, and jaywalking vibe to it to begin with. This just makes it official.

 

[him over there]

I make it a point to never have friends that are smokers are thieves. Your friend is a thief, and he is thieving willingly. He is no longer your friend. Make him pay.

Did you just compare thieves to smokers?

Well, it's not like this thread didn't have a huge <link=http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ArsonMurderAndJaywalking>arson, murder, and jaywalking vibe to it to begin with. This just makes it official.

I can't believe you linked that, now all my free time tonight is gone. Damn you tv tropes!

 

[Owyn_Merrilin]

I make it a point to never have friends that are smokers are thieves. Your friend is a thief, and he is thieving willingly. He is no longer your friend. Make him pay.

Did you just compare thieves to smokers?

Well, it's not like this thread didn't have a huge <link=http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ArsonMurderAndJaywalking>arson, murder, and jaywalking vibe to it to begin with. This just makes it official.

I can't believe you linked that, now all my free time tonight is gone. Damn you tv tropes!

And it's situations like this that make the low content rule annoying. The image alone would have been the perfect response.

 

[Ascarus]

thieves will be thieves as long as their theiving has no personal cost, real or imagined.

your friend won't change regardless of what you say. just know he is a dick for stealing and let it go at that.

 

[him over there]

I make it a point to never have friends that are smokers are thieves. Your friend is a thief, and he is thieving willingly. He is no longer your friend. Make him pay.

Did you just compare thieves to smokers?

Well, it's not like this thread didn't have a huge <link=http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ArsonMurderAndJaywalking>arson, murder, and jaywalking vibe to it to begin with. This just makes it official.

I can't believe you linked that, now all my free time tonight is gone. Damn you tv tropes!

And it's situations like this that make the low content rule annoying. The image alone would have been the perfect response.

Oh I here you, it's annoying how the low content rule is to promote discussion but the words following your image only detract from your point.

 

[Altorin]

If it's that big of a deal to you, stop talking to him. If not, then forget about it. You won't be able to change his mind, and trying will probably ruin your friendship anyway. So if that's the case, just stop talking to him.

 

[targren]

So fellow escapists any suggesions?

Express your displeasure (you've already done this). After that, just mind your own fucking business. If you don't like what he's doing, don't hang out with him anymore (it doesn't sound like this would be a great loss for either of you), but stop playing morality police. You'll just make yourself look like a tool.

 

[Owyn_Merrilin]

I make it a point to never have friends that are smokers are thieves. Your friend is a thief, and he is thieving willingly. He is no longer your friend. Make him pay.

Did you just compare thieves to smokers?

Sorry, that was a typo I already corrected. What I meant to say was smokers or thieves.

Still, there's a bit of an incongruity there, unless you're a former smoker yourself who doesn't need the temptation or something.

 

[Hazy992]

I make it a point to never have friends that are smokers are thieves. Your friend is a thief, and he is thieving willingly. He is no longer your friend. Make him pay.

Did you just compare thieves to smokers?

Sorry, that was a typo I already corrected. What I meant to say was smokers or thieves.

So my point still stands. You've basically said a smoker is as bad as a thief.

 

[Hazy992]

I make it a point to never have friends that are smokers are thieves. Your friend is a thief, and he is thieving willingly. He is no longer your friend. Make him pay.

Did you just compare thieves to smokers?

Sorry, that was a typo I already corrected. What I meant to say was smokers or thieves.

So my point still stands. You've basically said a smoker is as bad as a thief.

That's not what I said. I just said I don't associate myself with either of them. That has nothing to do with which is worse or not

By putting them together like that you imply that they're just as bad; you're putting them in the same boat.

(for the record though, there is NOTHING worse than a smoker).

Oh but then you go and say something like that and now I can't take anything you say seriously anymore, so well done. You stay classy.

 

[NightHawk21]

Ya know, I can understand distaste of his position, but you'd really do that to a friend of yours?

Alright, I'm going to hop up on my soap box for a few seconds. You don't have to agree with me but this is how I see it...

Piracy is bad, I think most of us can agree on that (or if you don't, you're probably not here on this forum since Mods have made the sites stance pretty damn clear).

Now, if someone was on welfare who shouldn't be, friend or not, would you report them? If someone is running an insurance scam, would you report them? If someone was skimming a bit of money off of bank transactions (think Office Space), would you report them?

I use those as examples because they're all examples of someone taking money from someone. Maybe you would report your friend and maybe you wouldn't but I'm thinking that THIS is where the OP is coming from. I'd be surprised if he was doing it for shits and giggles...

*EDIT: Note; I purposefully did not state what I thought about the issue. I'm merely thinking about how the OP is seeing the situation (though if I'm wrong, feel free to correct me OP)

Your pretty much right the fact is, like I said he will keep doing it now and in the long run will either get caught and face worse repercuisions or just prove piracy is a way to get free games for no risk and laugh in my face about it. I just need to scare him into stopping is all. I am not doing this out of spite.

Actually what you are doing (or rather proposing) is the definition of acting our of spite. That being said here are your options as I see them:
- Ignore it
- Tell him off
- Report him to Bethesda, and likely get him entangled in a legal battle or a fine

Which one of those would I recommend? The first, with the added condition that if this bothers you so much perhaps you should reevaluate your friendship. As for your stance, remember you aren't innocent either.

 

[tippy2k2]

Edit: By the way, I don't see anyone in this thread who is innocent of copyright infringement. Look on the left hand side of the screen. See those pictures? See how they're all images of copyrighted things/images made by people other than the user (and therefore copyrighted by someone else)? Congratulations, we're all thieves.

I'm not going to sit here and pretend like I'd never been naughty back in the day (I will never pirate now but I'm sure I've done SOME kind of copyright breaking at some point on accident or without realizing it) but my avatar is my own creation

 

[Thatrocketeer]

If it pisses you off so much then just report the damn guy. Piracy is still piracy no matter how you look at it. IT'S STILL ILLEGAL. Just because lots of people who pirate don't get caught doesn't mean that we should just ignore those criminals, especially if they can and will get caught if you act.

Also, if your "friend" pisses you off that much, then I say just find another guy to hang out with. Friends are replaceable.

 

[Kahunaburger]

I advise building up a reputation for showing mercy to merchant vessels that surrender. People are a lot more likely to lay down their weapons when they see your flag if they know you're there for their treasure, not their lives.

 

[Weaver]

Well, if he pirates now he won't have any other options to get games once Bethesda hits him with a 30 million dollar lawsuit.

 

[Darks63]

Since hes saving all this money pirating just make him the drink/food buyer when you go out from now on

 

[rob_simple]

OP, I have to ask you: have you ever watched a youtube video that wasn't uploaded by the copyright owner? Ever listened to a song on youtube that wasn't part of an official channel? Ever downloaded a song, movie, or TV show? Ever used an image you didn't have explicit permission to use(hint: if you didn't personally make your avatar, you've definitely done that one)? Then you need to stop complaining about your friend, because you are literally just as much of a lawbreaker as he is. Modern copyright law is fundamentally broken. There's no need to ever get high and mighty about it like this.

You just gave me a superior-logic-boner. Thank you, friend.

OT: You're a pretty shitty friend OP. A lot of my friends do varing levels of drugs and while I don't share their enthusiasm for said illegal substances I don't organise a police raid on their house because, and bear with me on this, they're my fucking friends.

 

[applesandoranges]

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[2012 Wont Happen]

Not only do I not know of a place to report him to but also I wouldn't tell you if I did. You sound like a really bad friend and I hope I never have the misfortune of meeting anyone like the sort of person you seem to be in real life. If you are so uptight that you want to ruin your friends life over pirating a fucking video game (when people are caught for piracy and prosecuted it is generally life ruining) you need to seriously rethink your life bro.

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What a friend you are.

If I had a friend like you i'd slap the ever living snot out of them.

If I had a friend like you....well I would'nt I dont make friends with people who insult others for asking for advice on a difficult siuation.

Just saw this exchange.

If you think that the choice of whether you should report your friend to authorities for some shit like this is a "difficult situation" you don't know what loyalty is. This is no longer a matter of what you seem to be like. That just confirmed it.