| Wonktonodi said: Fayec if you count it as money still in the economy then those who don't get it can count it as a loss. Save money is not the same as spent money. And can you say you saved 60 for gears or did you save 30 for it used or 20 or 10? all we know is you didn't spend money on something that you don't feel you need to have spent it on and I do. If I were to pirate a million dollars worth of games that million dollars doesn't exist in the sense of saved money because i didn't have it to spend it the first place. But since I don't have it doesn't make me entitled to just take it. I'm done posting on this thread. I feel piracy is theft base on one of the definitions of theft and even if you choose not to follow that one it would still fall under piracy or copyright infringement. Both of which still illegal and to many in the world immoral. Yes morality has its gray areas since some people can find some very creative ways to justify it. I hope they catch the lot of you and slap you with the huge fines that make the amount you should have paid seem so much more reasonable. Funny how you might not have the money to make the choice to pay for it but you can't just copy money to pay the fines is the real thing or bankruptcy baby |
Calling it immoral is stupid in my opinion. You shouldn't do it because that's how people get paid... but immoral?
I mean... was it immoral when your mom made you rice krispy treats?
If you go to a restruant and have a really good meal... the recreate it at home is that stealing?
If you are one of those savants at painting... and you go to a muesuem and paint painting you've seen in the museuem... are you stealing from the muesuem?
To all of these questions... OF COURSE NOT.
Software piracy is simply illegal because it's easy.
There isn't as much profit in other forms of distribution.
Computer games would mostly be made by people who just loved programming in their spare time... that and games run on advertising models like TV shows and Hulu.
Same with music and movies...
