Katilian said:
This isn't directed at you personally, but I've always been curious about this (Warning: philosophy ahead!). Why are people perfectly ok with buying used games, yet pirating is a horrid crime which people should suffer for? Neither gives the developer any more money (which is why DRM is being used to kill the used games market*). For example lets take this to the extreme: 1) Only one person buys a copy of a game. They go home, crack it, upload it to the internet, and everyone else who wants to play it just pirates it. Total number of copies sold: 1. 2) Only one person buys a copy of a game. They go home, play it, finish it, then sell it on ebay to the next person, rinse and repeat for everyone who wants to play the game. Total number of copies sold: 1. In both cases the developer has only sold one copy, yet morally (even for myself) 1 is 'bad' and 2 is 'ok'. *On a side note, DRM removes the rights the consumer has in regards to copyright. If developers/publishers want people to respect their rights in regards to copyright, then perhaps they should repects the consumers rights. |
That's an interesting thought. Obviously piracy is illegal and the developer wont see that money, but then again, they wouldn't see money if a game is resold time after time in the used market or even in the rental market. Sure, I suppose you could say that they'd at least see more with the used game business because I don't think a disk copy of a game is going to be circulated around as much as it could on the internet, but still.
I mean, I think you make a point in that it ought to sound weird when somebody condems piracy as stealing money from the developers and then talks about how he/she purchased a used game off of Ebay or Gamestop. Or there's the rental market like I've been taking advantage of. With Gamefly for just over a year now, I've been able to play through tons of games, without having to spend $60 on each of them. Does that mean I'm a bad person?
