| docholliday said:
(1) The discussion you brought up before was about the financial ramifications. Now its about personal gain for the pirate? You cant argue money one time and then come back with morality the next. The two honestly have nothing to do with eachother. (2) WHEN did I ever say that I pirated a single game ever? When? I said I thought about it, You mean to tell me YOUR that one mystically person who has never thought about doing something and then decided against it? Btw just took my pictures, im not sure how else to prove that all my games are legit, as im not about to take pictures of every damn receipt i have lol. But let me guess, I pirated all my games, bought the cases for them and printed out the covers, intstruction manuals right? |
(1) Amorality on the part of potential buyers has no financial impact on the company? Funny that.
(2) My apologies. I'm sure you've never pirated anything.
| ChichiriMuyo said:
(1) In neither instance are you a thief. Neither piracy nor sneaking into theaters are charged criminally as theft because neither is theft. Theft occurs when one is deprived of their property. Also, it's not a false dellima. If the person has no money to buy a game or see a movie then there is no way to take money from them. The vast majority of priates come from third world nations and make 4 digit anual salaries. Hold them by the ankles and shake 'til you're blue in the face and you still won't get anything from them. If they have nothing to give and they don't actually deprive anyone else of anything they own, There is neither gain to be hard or harm to be done in people playing a game they can't otherwise afford by pirating it. Frankly, if they switched over to buying used copies the only people to benefit are the government and game stores, not the makers. That is, after all, why companies like NIntendo and Sony took stores to court to try to stop used game sales a decade ago. No one in the industry gets helped by it, and if the devs had their way they would eliminate gamestop before they took down the pirate's bay. Guarenteed. (2) That's like, your opinion man. |
(1) Theft of service
(2) Duh.
