vlad321 said:
Except piracy is not stealing per se, this reason has been given many times, but when I steal that ferrari someone else won't buy it. Now if I make a copy, all of that handcrafted goodness is paid for. Especially with a Ferrari I can use the other beaten to death excuse. I'm never buying a Ferrari anyways (even if i could spare the money) , and someone has already paid for it, so might as well get a copy for myself. The craftsman still gets paid for the Ferrari HE built, why should he get paid for the copy if he didn't even bother building it? In my opinion you need a better example because this one just makes it too easy to counter, here's a hint, applying piracy analogies to physical things does not work out in your favor at all. |
Someone paid for it so everyone else can get a free copy... that's stupid. You don't understand how licensing works. The more people play a game, the more money the developer should get, that's common sense. What you pay for is the work of hundreds of people to create the game you play, you pay them so that they allow you to play the game they made.
So making a copy of a game is allowing you to play the game without paying for the right to do so. You're not directly stealing the developer, but indirectly you are, because if piracy didn't exist, you would have paid for the game like any honest customer.
