xman said:
aher052 said:
ok so i just want to get this out....
this is my opinion on pirating
when people pirate they (the ppl i know) usually do it because they dont want to pay 100 bucks or whatever for a game. however this is not stealing IMO (and i said IMO) because if they didnt pirate then they wouldnt pay the 100 bucks any way, no matter how much they wanted the game....
so in this situation it would be either having the game pirated or not buying the game at all....so really this helps the developer because they would usually tell all their friends about the game (ie me) and they would end up buying it. (this is how i end up buying games...through friends who have the game and advertise it to me)
This is not stealing because if they didnt pirate the game they wouldnt end up buying the game and therefore the developer or whoever is not losing out on any money anyway because they wouldnt have got the game if they had to pay for it....
but for example if someone were to pirate LBP and shared my opinion on either pirating or not paying, it would help the developer because they would pay for the other features such as MGS paintball addon pack so really the developer would get money off that...
so if you followed all my logic etc if someone were to pirate they wouldnt be stealing because if they didnt pirate they wouldnt get teh game at all....
that is my opinion and what some friends of mine do and think.....
however i am against people pirating massive amounts then selling copied games for a profit (just wanted to get that out of the way)
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Taking something you did not pay for is stealing plain and simple you can call it pirating ect. If I walk into a store and say hmm I wasnt going to buy ghost recon but if I put it in my poicket and walk out with it thats ok? No its stealing simple as that. You want a game pay for it you dont want it you dont play it. Thats my opinion. I try to not even buy used games cine the publisher and developer make no money on it.
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That is not the same thing, and to suggest that it is the same is disingenuous. Yes, you're still getting something you didn't pay for, but it's a copy of a product, not a physical piece of software which the company itself produced. There is no stock being stolen in this scenario.
