Pirating Games

[Alexjfry3]

Pirate if you want no one will stop you, just know that there are punishments for your actions.

[FrieChamp]

Pirate if you want no one will stop you, just know that there are punishments for your actions.

must...resist... to post "don't copy that floppy"...

[dc-mike]

dont think ive ever pirated, i just think you might aswelll walk into a store and steal the things youre pirating, its the same thing imho

i dont mind other people doing it a whole lot though, theyre free to do it and make up their own minds about it, im not about to try and stop them.

[Warby]

dont think ive ever pirated, i just think you might aswelll walk into a store and steal the things youre pirating, its the same thing imho

well if i walk into a store that has 10 copys of "awsome the game" and i steel one it has only 9 left they can sell if i download "awsome the game" theres still the one copy on the server that was there before i downlaoded it ... think about that ^^

[PhilipK]

Well I try to buy as much as possible as I like. That goes with everything really, games, movies, music.

I buy a lot of music digitally now as well and one of the largest reasons for that is it can't really be found otherwise and it's so simple and fast and you know you get a good quality (plus supporting the artists you like who are really doing this becuase they love music)

[slicky]

i dont know about other people but i think pirating can really encourage sales in some cases.

For instance, i downloaded titan quest awhile ago. A game which to me seemed like it would be mediocre quality and certainly not worthy of the highly select grade of games ill buy every year. I played the game for a few hours, found that i really enjoyed it, then went to the store and bought it, something i would never do on faith, even with a favourable review in PCG. This same type of thing has happened to me several times now.

My older brother had the same experience with music piracy. He was not a music afficionado in general when he was younger. Rarely listened to music and had no defined tastes. When napster hit the world he got heavy into downloading. Today he has one of the largest cd music collections of anyone i know, i can say fairly certainly without the ability to experiment online he wouldnt have the collection he does.

As it applies to movies, im simply not going to pay to see many movies in theatres that might still be interesting enough to grab off torrent. (I dont think my girlfriend would agree to see 'snakes on a plane')

Piracy may not be moral in many peoples eyes, but besides revenue and all the mental equations people are doing (including myself just now) I see it as an overwhelmingly positive thing in terms of culture. That minotauro or a person living in a third world country can still have access to the same music and media of the affluent west, is necessary. I dont think art should suffer the kind of corporate restraints the various publishing industries instill. Besides simple opportunism i view the explosion of pirated media as a reaction to that control. I guess my view basically is buy if you can, steal if you have to.

[Polaris]

The problem is a lot of people don't have to steal, but given the opportunity they will. Im not saying this is always the case but a lot of times it is, and those are the sales that are really lost.

If you pirate, I don't want to hear about it in a place where it's not even relevant (generalvivi ).

[⌐■_■]

Ok, so let's see wich one of us actually payed for anything Microsoft related without getting a legal copy of it with the purchase of your PC?

Thaught so..

[Warby]

i have ! windows 2000 didnt come with my pc (edit and its the only microsoft product i use ) WOOOOOOOOT 100 post btw

[Section_Ei8ht]

Ok, so let's see wich one of us actually payed for anything Microsoft related without getting a legal copy of it with the purchase of your PC?

Got Windows XP Pro through school for $13, Visual Studio 2005 for $18, and Office 2003 for $15, and work paid for my Windows Server 2003.

As for the whole piracy thing, I'm all for giving developers/artists what they deserve, I just wish they didnt choke it up with DRM (or in the case of starforce, malware).

And I really wish people would stop calling piracy "stealing". Online Piracy is not stealing, its Copyright Infringment, however the difference in no way justifies piracy. Both are very much illegal, but very different.

[SnipaMasta]

My Windows is legal now, although before it wasn't legitimate. I don't pirate games unless the Demo didn't convince me it was awesome enough and I think "Whatever, might as well download it...". I certiantly don't consider this a good excuse or that it by any means justies it.

However, if the game turns out to be absolutely awesome (I pirated Deus Ex : IW and Thief 3 when they came out) I go out and buy it to support the development team.

[General Vivi]

I have changed my evil ways ^^ no worries

[MJ]

Since I don't play games when there actually released I feel less guilty when I download them.

[Warby]

btw: i am offcialy a licensed photoshop user now ... just felt like mentioning it ^^ *pose*