Piracy not theft because its a copy..

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Alterego-X said:

Hey, my thread!

1. As others pointed out, 1 pirated copy=/= 1 lost sale
I'm poor, I'm 19, and I literally get $5 pocket money for a month. I managed to get a used gaming PC for christmas+birthday, and that's it. If there would be a failsafe anti-piracy protection, I would quit gaming, with no other option.

2. If you could COPY an expensive car, would you do it? That would hurt the manufacturers too, but this awesome ability to copy anything would naturally re-shape the economy anyways.

The informational revolution changes the rules of traditional copyright. Information is no longer the power of a few, to be witheld.
Publishers must find incomes from new sources, like advertisments, selling hardware, or other actual services with the bare software "information", and possibly making cheaper games.
Musicians can get money from concerts, movies from the cinemas, etc.

3. I'm not that amused by the current state of the industry, a crash would probably benefit it.
Even if I would have money, there would be only a very few games that I would consider worthy of buying. I game, because I'm bored and I don't have anything better to do, but I actually hate where gaming is going, and the current blockbuster trend. They are spending 10s of millions on mediocre games, and they are surprised when they go bankrupt.

I was hoping you would find this. I didn't want to put your name out there, but now its obvious where I got the image from.

1. Get a better job. I left my parents house when I was 17, still finished High School, put myself through college, and now make a very good income. Did I stop buy/playing games while I was dirt poor sometimes without food in my crappy overly populated apartment? No. I saved and bought used games.

 There is no fail safe anti-piracy and that is stupid logic anyways. If it weren't for the thief, i.e. you, they wouldn't need to spend millions on anti-piracy software. That savings combined with the lack of a need to make profit on stolen items, game prices could come down so you could afford them on your lower budget.

2. No. Its stealing. I am not returning any compensation for someone else's hard work. I spend months writing code so an end application can be useful to others I work with. I get compensated for my work. If my product was easily made free for everyone, my company would get no more sales and I would lose my income. Thus my three children wouldn't have the ability to live in a safe home with a decent school.

This is not information being withheld. This isn't black rooms where what you don't know is hurting you. This is someone else's decade of education being used to create a product that gives enjoyment to so many others. This is a product that they sweated and stressed over for years to complete, just to watch pricks walk away with it without so much as a thank you.

Regardless if it is a car, movie, shirt, gold bar, etc. If you didn't somehow compensate the entity who created it, its stealing.

3. This entire paragraph shows your just an immature child. I can't wait for the day to come when somethign similar causes you major loss and you realize that stealing, regardless of the item, is still stealing and never justified. btw, if you game just because you're bored, there are thousands of free games on the internet; play those and gtfo of my hobby.