Ten Golden Rules of videogame piracy

[Grey Acumen]

Analogy for #1 is great, provided the bread you're talking about has known issues where there's a giant hole in hte middle of the bread, or you were planning on getting wheat bread but there's no way to look at the bread well enough to tell that it's actually only white, or sometimes the bread is stale and feels like it was baked weeks ago, and you only have enough money for 1 loaf.
Yeah, i think I WILL start expecting to be able to try a slice or two before I'm willing to make a purchase.

#2 is cute as well. I can just imagine the curator walking into the museum, looking in the main display room and shouting "They've been STOLEN! The paintings are NOT gone! We must catch the thief who left these priceless works of art right where they were!"
No one is missing any products. All stock is still accounted for. the only difference is that the people who weren't willing to pay what was being asked for the game STILL aren't going to pay what is being asked for the game.
However, I'm not about to say that there aren't plenty of people who would have shelled out the price eventually if they didn't have the free alternative.

#3 is just silly.

#4 isn't quite phrased right. It's less "I killed the cat because it's dead" but "I cooked the cat for dinner because it had already been set on fire", perhaps a little unpleasant, but I'd rather see a cat eaten than see it burned for absolutely no reason at all. At least then it's feeding someone

#5 oh hell yes, homebrew has some awesome stuff, and being able to adjust my backlight intensity while I'm still playing is just as awesome as being able to switch between all my games without having to carry around all dozen of them. Seriously, i only have so many pockets, and it's nice just to have everything with me, cause I never know what I'll be in the mood to play, why do you think people went from CDs to MP3 players?
but tempted? that I can't argue with. My only point is that it doesn't negate that there are plenty of other reasons for the R4 card besides just piracy. It wasn't the roms that got me to buy the CycloDs that I own, it was the homebrew and applications that essentially let me use my DS as a PDA.

#6 i don't own a PSP

#7 LOL, this was awesome. Now it's going to be even worse for me to buy games from a store, because i know that my experience will never be that awesome. Pirating games may be the closest thing i will ever come to that type of death defying thrill of adventure! Avast, me hearties, yo ho!

#8 this one I will contend, at least on a personal basis. I don't recommend games unless I've played them and enjoy them. There are a lot of really decent games that i simply don't have the funds to purchase, but once i find a good game, I recommend the Shit out of it to anyone who I even notice having a DS, and i don't really bring any notice to the illegal rom side of things, so I actually am acting to boost the sales up of those games that deserve it.
I have however noticed the occasional thing where people go "hey, you don't need to buy the game, just get the rom for free from here" that i find a little detestable. I'm not about to go around saying that a game is really good and deserves great sales and then tell people NOT to buy it. That's just being an ass.

#9 is pretty much the same as 8. i don't have the money for it, so there's are two options for me and the game companies: either i don't get the game, and if anyone asks I won't even mention those games, or i find a cheaper alternative and then recommend it to anyone else who might possibly be able to buy the thing for the full price.

#10 isn't this what it always comes down to anyway?