Who hates piracy?

[vlad321]

WiiStation360 said:

vlad321 said:

Godot said:
Wow! What a topic. On one side, you have the rich self-righteous western kids (I call them rich even if they work at Wal-Mart) telling to the poor third world persons that if they pirate, they're making the big American/Japanese corporations lose money and some software engineers, 3d artists, etc. will lose their job.

Piracy in third world countries is as high as 90% and it's not surprising. They don't do the same maths that you do in America. They can't simply decide to stop eating at Subway or not go see a movie to spare money. They're poor. Poorer than we will ever be.

And if you think, they don't deserve to get for free what we buy for 50-60$, you should not forget that we're basically paying them nothing for pretty much every products that are made in a third world country.

 

Thank you for speaking some sense, especially the last part, VERY good point. The US pays them cents an hour to produce products which are immidiately sold at ridiculous prices right back to the same people that produced them. Maybe if companies were paying the 3rd world equal money that they would in the US then they wouldn't pirate as much? Just a thought.

What I do not understand, is how poor people in 3rd world countries can afford to by a PS3 or 360 in the first place?  If they are poor, where are they getting the money to buy a console?

 

I thought we went over this, the piracy does not pertain just to the current gen at all, most probably are still pirating PS2 games or even PS1 games. Also PCs dominate less developed countries (since they don't have money they can actually build PCs for themselves, cheaply, especially PCs with 2 or 3 year old specs) and that's what gets pirated the most.