Really good opinion piece on PC piracy

[Ail]

Lord N said:

Ail said:

 

 

Sure you are taking something.

It's just a lot more indirect so that you think in the end you aren't doing it....

Pirated games end up in added support cost, added hardware costs to support multiplayers servers, inflated internet traffic...

There is still an inflated cost...

 

 

As has already been explained, you aren't taking anything. To take something means that the owner would no longer have it. If a game is downloaded via P2P, then the owner still has the game. Taking or stealing would involve going into a store and removing a physical copy of the game.

 

As far as the inflated costs, it doesn't add the hardware costs for multiplayer servers because those playing with bootleg copies would have to go to a private server, nor does it increase support costs because it's just a game being copied. As far as inflated internet traffic, you're really grasping at straws.

Anyway, I don't see anything wrong with someone downloading digital media for their own personal use.

 

 

 

 

 Sure there is added cost.

The first thing people using pirated copies of games do is find a keygen so they can play the play the multiplayer version of the game.

As for added support, what percentage of the posts on EA or Activision support forums are made by pirates you think ?

Cause someone has to read those and they have a cost.

 

As for your argument, I could apply exactly the same to counterfeinting currency.

You only copy the dollar bill, you don't take anything from anyone. But in the end it's still a crime, the way pirating is....