Ten Golden Rules of videogame piracy

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BenKenobi88 said:
Uh, tell me how you plan on copying a car and taking the copy.  Or copying a loaf of bread.

I didn't say stop with analog comparisons, I said stop with the analogies.  'Tis different.  I know you can copy a tape and whatnot, that's not what I'm talking about.

Stealing a car is different than pirating an mp3.  I'd say stealing an object is worse, since it's more of a hit to the creator...but I probably say that simply because it's so much easier to get caught and punished for stealing an object than it is to pirate something digital.

They are both illegal though, and I believe both should be.  There needs to be protection on intellectual property.

If you created an important idea or document, or program, that only exists in the digital realm, shouldn't you have the right to sell it, if you wanted?  If this program cost you $100,000 to make, wouldn't it piss you off, or beyond that, bankrupt you if it was easily piratable by torrents and whatnot?

If the concept of digital piracy did not exist, you could probably make a profit on your program much, much faster than you could with half your userbase downloading without paying a cent.

Anyway, I'm rambling.  I'm just saying this is different than a physical object, where you steal it and it's gone, and they've lost whatever they had to pay for that object.

Here we're talking about potential sales, and people or companies paying to make something, like a game, and then not having every download paid for.

In the baker analogy, I did present a way for someone to copy bread.
The reason I chose the name "Jesus" was because of one bible story where he multiplied donated bread and gave it to the people who followed him. The reason I chose that story is because someone had to work hard making the bread, someone bought said bread, someone multiplied said bread (without the baker losing any resources) and gave it away for free.
I'm not saying my analogy is perfect, but it does get the message across.
The reason I made that analogy is to present the reader some moral choices.
Should Jesus who multiplied the bakers bread and gave it away to people for free be persecuted?
Should the people who ate the bread for free be fined or thrown in jail?
Should the guy who bought the bread and donated it to Jesus be blamed and sentenced?
What can be done to help the baker? 

You called that analogy stupid.
Enlighten me?