kn on 08 August 2007
| Morgyn said: Stealing and Video Game piracy isn't the same thing so your analogue is incorrect. By stealing you are actually taking something away, depriving someone of something they have. By Video Game piracy, you are taking a POTENTIAL sale away, so a more correct analogue would be to buy or make your own Ferrari kit car clone than to buy an actual Ferrari. Ferrari has lost the potential sale and you have a /similar/ product. Its not perfect, but its more correct than yours. |
Are you familiar with the term "intellectual property"? It doesn't matter in the eyes of the law whether a ferrari or a line of code. You are stealing. Period. There is no other way to define it. Unless the IP owner grants you specific permission to use their property free (and it is property) you have stolen it regardless of whether or not you would have bought it otherwise. There is no other way to define it unless you implicitly condone piracy.
I hate trolls.
Systems I currently own: 360, PS3, Wii, DS Lite (2)
Systems I've owned: PS2, PS1, Dreamcast, Saturn, 3DO, Genesis, Gamecube, N64, SNES, NES, GBA, GB, C64, Amiga, Atari 2600 and 5200, Sega Game Gear, Vectrex, Intellivision, Pong. Yes, Pong.
