Confessions of a pirate

[Pristine20]

Hawk said:

Onyxmeth said:

Hawk said:

marciosmg said:

I pirated 95% of my PS1 games, 100% of my PS2 and now 100% of my 360 games. To me it is as simple as if I don´t buy pirated games I won´t buy real ones, so no company is losing real money because of me. Games here are so expensive it is impossible for 95% of the people in my country to buy.

What a classic excuse. I do agree with stof, that pirating games is not the biggest sin in the world, but I still do not appreciate the people that do. And if you wouldn't have bought the game in the first place, then plain and simple, you shouldn't have it.

I'm not condoning the act of piracy here, but you really have no place as an American to tell someone from Brazil whether they should pirate games or not. Brazil gets screwed royally up the ass in game prices and I personally give anyone from that country my blessing to pirate, because they don't have the same priviliges Americans have with game prices.

 

Keep in mind, we are talking about a luxury here.  We are not talking about a necessity at all.  When it comes to someone who does not have the opportunity to earn what is necessary in life to survive, then my views change.  But we are talking luxuries, a purely not needed or necessary service. 

Yes, I still absolutely see it as stealing and wrong to pirate a luxury because you don't have the money for it.  As rich as you may view the American standard, there is far richer.  I certainly don't think that just because I can't afford a ferrarri or yaht, that society owes it to me to provide them for free.  Just because I don't have the money to extensively travel, doesn't mean airlines and hotels should provide services to me for free.

Still, you have to admit that 3rd world piracy doesn't affect the video game industry in any way. Why?

1. With significantly lower purchasing power and ridiculously higher prices. Only the presidents of 3rd world countries can afford to play games

2. Due to point 1, almost no one would be purchasing games in 3rd world countries anyway if piracy didn't exist. In fact, piracy helps to sell consoles which benefits the industry (if the consoles are sold for profit like the wii).

3. There's a reason why the term "piracy" is used in place of "stealing". Its because they're different. In most 3rd world cases, people actually buy pirated games from stores so they still paid for them. Just not the same amount as the original. In most cases, 3rd world stores only stock pirated copies because they know that no one will pay for the original when there's a much cheaper version that'll work just as well.