In defence of piracy

[DonFerrari]

Ganoncrotch said:

DonFerrari said:
The "the person wouldn't buy it anyway" argument is strange, if the person is willing to pirate the material them they have interest in it, so it would be a matter of choice and priorities. Because if piracy were impossible what would he do them? Buy the thing. PS3 for several years had no piracy and people still bought it and the games.

here is one rea I could suggest for things like this, I know of a few people who have pirated a few of the Senran Kagura games to have easier access to modded versions of them for nude mods etc and jus for the sake of avoiding the embarrassment of not having those games appear on their steam librarys

Hey man, not saying there aren't the odd man out that pirate 5 games and buy 2 of them later. Or any other variation.

But the most common case people wouldn't completely leave gaming realm because they can't pirate anything. They would do something like I did when I was a kid. Buy 1 or 2 games a year second hand, loan and trade a lot to try other games, also we had rentals... that didn't prevent me from gaming. Hell no, there were a lot of people that couldn't even afford a console and that generated the arcade rip-off here, where people gone to a rental place to play 1h of SNES for a buck. And there were a lot of low income people doing it.

All excuses for piracy are just excuses.