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twesterm on 03 September 2008
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Chemical said:
twesterm said:

 

I'm just pointing out that your counterargument is silly.

This is what your argument says: since one law is against something that is not wrong, all laws must be against something that is not wrong.

I provided something that wasn't in that set therefore your law doesn't work.  I wasn't saying piracy was bad because it's illegal, I'm just asking him why it is illegal.

Here is how i understood it, you were challenging that user to answer why is piracy is illegal, which is a pointless question because of the reasons i have stated before. A better question to answer would be : If piracy is not stealing then how come you get the same exact product as somebody who paid 50-60$ for it? Or even better do you have any idea what the hell intellectual property is?

I will not deny that I pirate games, I am not going to justify it because:

1. I could care less about morals

2. I cant afford every game out there, in the past year i must have spent at least 2k$ on gaming hardware and about as much on software. There are mediocre games like Spore that i am just not willing to pay for it. And yes Spore is mediocre in my opinion, after 4 hours of playing it I came to a conclusion that it is nothing more than a collection of several dumbed down genres. I would rather play 5 games that excel at what they are doing than 1 game that tries to do everything, aka Too Human syndrome.

So a I'm a cheap fuck and I deserve to have every game I want for free...... (as quoted from Ail) desrcibes me pretty well

But in the end do i think that piracy hurts developers? Nope, the cases where the developers are hurt and countered by the cases where the developers benefited from it. Piracy is the cheapest form of advertisement which can be very powerful if the game is good. I know I would have never bought Dawn of War and 3 of its expansion if I did not pirate the original game.

I don't care why you pirate games (though the money excuse is still bullshit) but I do at least respect you admit you're a cheap fuck and that makes you somewhat better than the people that sit there and lie to themselves.

And yes, piracy does hurt developers.  That is why so many of them do not like putting their games on PC's or do not give their PC version half the attention they give their console versions.  Just because you don't think it doesn't mean that's the way it is.