Never. Something that's illegal can never be legal. If you had a book and then went into a store and stole a copy because you lost your original, they would still call the cops and you would still be in trouble.
Piracy, when is it legal?
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When the man gets you down.
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By "the man", I mean "Adobe" and by "gets you down" I mean "makes you pay £2,500 for software which you need in order to do your college work".
Seriously, where is a student supposed to come up with that much money on top of course fees, travel fees and materials fees?
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By "the man", I mean "Adobe" and by "gets you down" I mean "makes you pay £2,500 for software which you need in order to do your college work".
Seriously, where is a student supposed to come up with that much money on top of course fees, travel fees and materials fees?
But doesn't that mean you could buy a game, copy it, then sell it on in less than a day (probably getting full price for it)?MrBacon said:I believe there's something about having backup copies of whatever piece of media you own, so you have you CD, and you backup on your mp3 player
Same for movies, you can make a backup iso, as long as you don't give it to anyone else. e.g. I made a copy of all of my Harry Potter DVDs a while back, and when PS got scratched beyond repair, I was allowed to make a new disc.
One backup, in one place, for one person. That's my understanding of the copying malarkey.
As for downloading, it's never legal. Unless of course, the person OFFICIALLY responsible for the product offers it for free.
Anyway, I might be completely wrong, but I'm pretty sure I have my facts straight.
Never. It never is. Not in any way, shape, or form. Piracy simply means that not only are you not willing to actually buy the games you play but you take advantage of the hard work of many game developers throughout the world. Piracy is glorified theft more often than not.
True, but if you lost your car, then borrowed a friend's car, cloned it, returned their car and started using the cloned car.... see what I'm getting at here?Machines Are Us said:
No. It's a Backup. for you and only you. you must have the original too, otherwise it is a pirated copy, not a backup copy.DuplicateValue said:But doesn't that mean you could buy a game, copy it, then sell it on in less than a day (probably getting full price for it)?MrBacon said:I believe there's something about having backup copies of whatever piece of media you own, so you have you CD, and you backup on your mp3 player
Same for movies, you can make a backup iso, as long as you don't give it to anyone else. e.g. I made a copy of all of my Harry Potter DVDs a while back, and when PS got scratched beyond repair, I was allowed to make a new disc.
One backup, in one place, for one person. That's my understanding of the copying malarkey.
As for downloading, it's never legal. Unless of course, the person OFFICIALLY responsible for the product offers it for free.
Anyway, I might be completely wrong, but I'm pretty sure I have my facts straight.
Wrong. It's legal to download as many copies of a game as you want as long as you purchased it. So, unless you bought it second hand, I could download Fallout 3 legally as long as I once purchased it.AboveUp said:
But you could just say that you lost the game and nobody could prove otherwise, couldn't you?MrBacon said:No. It's a Backup. for you and only you. you must have the original too, otherwise it is a pirated copy, not a backup copy.DuplicateValue said:But doesn't that mean you could buy a game, copy it, then sell it on in less than a day (probably getting full price for it)?MrBacon said:I believe there's something about having backup copies of whatever piece of media you own, so you have you CD, and you backup on your mp3 player
Same for movies, you can make a backup iso, as long as you don't give it to anyone else. e.g. I made a copy of all of my Harry Potter DVDs a while back, and when PS got scratched beyond repair, I was allowed to make a new disc.
One backup, in one place, for one person. That's my understanding of the copying malarkey.
As for downloading, it's never legal. Unless of course, the person OFFICIALLY responsible for the product offers it for free.
Anyway, I might be completely wrong, but I'm pretty sure I have my facts straight.
Does it make a difference? No-one's gonna come smashing your door down in the middle of the night to check...DuplicateValue said:But you could just say that you lost the game and nobody could prove otherwise, couldn't you?MrBacon said:No. It's a Backup. for you and only you. you must have the original too, otherwise it is a pirated copy, not a backup copy.DuplicateValue said:But doesn't that mean you could buy a game, copy it, then sell it on in less than a day (probably getting full price for it)?MrBacon said:I believe there's something about having backup copies of whatever piece of media you own, so you have you CD, and you backup on your mp3 player
Same for movies, you can make a backup iso, as long as you don't give it to anyone else. e.g. I made a copy of all of my Harry Potter DVDs a while back, and when PS got scratched beyond repair, I was allowed to make a new disc.
One backup, in one place, for one person. That's my understanding of the copying malarkey.
As for downloading, it's never legal. Unless of course, the person OFFICIALLY responsible for the product offers it for free.
Anyway, I might be completely wrong, but I'm pretty sure I have my facts straight.
Just because it's illegal doesn't mean it's particularly well enforced...
the war on piracy is an un-winnable war because there are so many "pirates" and so many ways to hide what your doing.
I don't know where people get this one from. No, it isn't legal to download a ROM if you own the original. You can extract the ROM from your own copy but you are not allowed to download it from someone else's copy.jasoncyrus said:
Again, no, you can't legally download something just because it's not available in your country. Why? Because it may become available. If everyone's already seen it and shared it then its value depreciates to broadcasters and advertisers alike.
I'm not saying that anyone would bother with prosecution but technically, it's copyright theft. Assuming copyright is applied to the title.
But if they found out, which they could, in theory. Then you would also be charged with perverting the course of justice as well.DuplicateValue said:But you could just say that you lost the game and nobody could prove otherwise, couldn't you?MrBacon said:No. It's a Backup. for you and only you. you must have the original too, otherwise it is a pirated copy, not a backup copy.DuplicateValue said:But doesn't that mean you could buy a game, copy it, then sell it on in less than a day (probably getting full price for it)?MrBacon said:I believe there's something about having backup copies of whatever piece of media you own, so you have you CD, and you backup on your mp3 player
Same for movies, you can make a backup iso, as long as you don't give it to anyone else. e.g. I made a copy of all of my Harry Potter DVDs a while back, and when PS got scratched beyond repair, I was allowed to make a new disc.
One backup, in one place, for one person. That's my understanding of the copying malarkey.
As for downloading, it's never legal. Unless of course, the person OFFICIALLY responsible for the product offers it for free.
Anyway, I might be completely wrong, but I'm pretty sure I have my facts straight.
It's never legal. All those things you said are illegal... not that anyone gives a shit. I believe in supporting people who make games, music, films and what have you so I will usually fork out the cash for that reason.