OP makes good points. You sir are an i-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------nconsiderate.evilneko said:"I wouldn't have bought it or can't afford to buy it anyway" is not an excuse.RubyT said:Piracy's not stealing, because nothing is taken. They never had my money. They make the case they'd gotten it without piracy, but since I've probably streamed more movies than my cumulative net worth, that argument is defeated by simple math.
My landlord is probably not going to like the idea of me re-prioritizing my expenditures to the purchase of entertainment products.
Some say you shouldn't download stuff you can't or don't want to afford. Why? Who's that helping? Who's getting paid in Karma points?
"Dear EA, last month I didn't buy or download any of your games. You're welcome!"
I'd hazard a guess that's because they aren't breaking any laws.People don't get critizised for waiting a year until the retail price drops to $10.
Absurd.Well, they might as well download the game right away and mail the dev $10. Personal asketicism during one's time of abstinence isn't helping their employees pay the rent anyway.
Absurd and already-refuted argument.Buy a game second hand - you might as well pirate it. "But people have always sold off things and bought used things." Yes. This truth still doesn't help the devs pay the rent.
A clean conscience isn't valid currency in the free market economy.
Because while your individual download of something may not hurt anyone, the collective of people doing it can and often does. Depending on how you got your download, it may help others download it and/or encourage further piracy.I don't hoard money. Can't. I spend all my income. Every month. I'm doing my part. Why should I not get stuff free when it doesn't hurt no-one? Me downloading a CD doesn't diminish the record company's ability to sell it to somebody else.
And at the next stop there's a group of two-dozen polka dancers waiting. Stupid analogy is stupid.Let's say I need to ride the bus home. I only have five dollars on me. I can't pay more. But five dollars is only gonna get me within four blocks. The bus is empty, or at least empty enough, so I don't take nobody's seat. Who is helped by me getting off the bus to walk the rest? (apart from my health)The bus is going there anyway, I don't diminish any paying customer's ability use it.
Not even gonna bite at that flamebait...What kind of twisted Christian guilt morality makes one assume it is wrong to just ride the bus until home?
Let's stick to the topic shall we?What does that conscience say when you proudly buy a video game full price like a good patriot, and then play it on the X-Box that is only so cheap because some legal slave in China assembled it for 2 bucks a day, while you're wearing the T-Shirt that some Indonesian kid sowed instead of going to school?
Aren't we accustomed to screwing people over by now?
The truth is piracy is nowhere near as bad as it's made out to be. But indoctrinated people will say otherwise. I believe the support the developer whenever you can policy, but not when supporting means screwing myself over for jacked up prices.