Can piracy be a good thing?

[jkl2207]

Piracy is good for low income families and families on the poverty line which has both parents working. Normally they probably wouldn't even buy such games for their kids at full price, but purchasing games at a substantially reduced rate will:

- give the parents the satisfaction of having their kids happy and playing video games and not having to miss out as much,

- reduce the stress on the family budget, whilst not limiting choices of entertainment you can choose for the family

- Let parents work in a happier state of mind if they do night shift thinking that perhaps their kids are too preoccupied with games to be doing anything naughty outside

- and that in turn has a flow on effect of having kids stay home rather then roam the streets in gangs beating people up. And growing up to doing more harmful things.

- Which in turn makes the streets safer at night.

- Which then benefits the community.

Furthermore I am of the opinion that piracy can be good thing for people who like to try before they buy. I know if I could have tried Fantastic four, GTA4, MGS4 and DMC4 I would have never bought those games. And it could be good for the industry too. Now I know this will be stretching it. If everyone could try a game before they bought it..... now think about it..... would the game developers then have to try harder to make their games better and therefore prove a case to the consumers that their game is worth buying at full price? And that would then have the flow on effect of better games for everyone.

That said I don't pirate, (except really shit movies that I can't find in DVD shops) I just like looking at things from a lateral point of view.