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Do you pirate?

Never, It's a disgusting practice. 37 22.84%
 
Sometimes, to try a game. 47 29.01%
 
Often, I only buy when I ... 42 25.93%
 
I'm Jack Sparrow, I wond... 36 22.22%
 
Total:162

i stopped when i realized people werent making money from my pirating....so a really long time ago lol



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BenVTrigger said:
No I dont and never really have.

My main question to pirates is doesnt it take a lot of time to do? I mean maybe it doesnt idk exactly how it works but it seems like it would be difficult always looking up the stuff to download, figuring out whats real or fake, and then getting it to work

Yeah, but it depends on your internet download speed and the format. I used to pirate, but thanks to the PS3 I changed my habits :P



 

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gigaSheik said:
All the time and no guilt at all.

Now bring on the rum.


You should be a shame of yourself. 

These developers and artist are losing money they could use to make the next game.  I mean, that's why gamers complain about  a company not doing well.  I hate it when selfish games with no money.... Na just kidding.  I haven't bought a thing since I don't know when.

I mean, really?  Do you know how expensive Maya or 3d Studio max is?  Photoshop.  Flash.  Dreamweaver. Microsoft word.  They all f'in expensive. 

Give me a price of 350 dollars for 3d studio max and I'll buy it, but US$3,495 (MSRP).  That's f'in crazy.  And you ask me not to bootleg it?  Dude, I'd be broke.



pirate everything but games really, especially TV shows as i see it as, if i lived in the us i would just watch it on cable, but since these shows often don't air in Australia just download them, although i still get a lot of stuff both movies and TV shows from apple TV if i really like the show. i never buy music; 25$ for a new CD is a joke with the artists making the money that they are, and i couldn't care less if they are butt hurt about it.



I once broke my Psp so I could play a few downloaded golden oldies.
Games I don't pirate anymore, just now and then some movies or tv-shows.

Feeling guilty? Hmm... not so much. Once actors and most of all studios are making the kind of money i feel they deserve maybe ;P.



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I pretty much pirate 24/7. I watch a ton of US shows online. WWE, TNA, Adventure Time, Dexter, The Walking Dead and so on. I only watch stream and don't download anything though.



Ongoing bet with think-man: He wins if MH4 releases in any shape or form on PSV in 2013, I win if it doesn't.

My internet connection's far too crap to pirate. (24kbps if I'm lucky three weeks out of the month) I have roms of GBA games, but that's so I can hack them and change them however I like :P I also own legitimate copies of the games I have roms of, so no harm, no foul.



I recently downloaded Xcom Terror From the Deep for free.



Xbox: Best hardware, Game Pass best value, best BC, more 1st party genres and multiplayer titles. 

 

Back during college I use to pirate music (early 2000's) because I just didn't want to pay and I didn't want to buy whole CD. It was a pretty miserable experience back then because you had to deal with misnamed songs, songs disguised as another song (I can't count how many times I thought I downloaded one song and some jackass just renamed a Brittany Spears song), and slow downloads, but it was free.

As soon as iTunes came around I stopped pirating. I no longer had to try different names for songs, I didn't have to deal with jerks that misnamed songs, and I could pick what songs to buy.

Since then, I haven't pirated anything (well, except for Limbo of the Lost, but they deserved it and there was no other way to get the game).



Music, but not games or movies.

Partly moral reasons and partly because I don't know how.

 

Edit: And even with music, I buy CD's when I find artists I really like. I usually pirate to get a taste for someone's sound, then I'll decide if it's worth buying one of their CD's. If anyone is wondering I just bought 3 CD's last week (Lumineers, Of Monsters and Men and State Radio). I just wanted to point out it's not like I ONLY pirate music, I buy a lot too.