Piracy not theft because its a copy..

[dorbin2009]

I'd like to address the commonly used argument here that "Used Game Sales are just as bad as piracy"

Actually, not really. When your buying a used game, that game at one point was a profit for the developer. When you pirate a game and lets say torrent the .iso or make multiple copies, then you are essentially making a version of the game that the developer didn't even benefit from in the slightest.

Yes, I buy used games often. How many times has that game I purchased been returned? 3-4? That means

- Probably about 100 + dollars went into the economy, like gamestop, which allowed gamestop's employees to keep working,which allowed them to spend money in the economy, which kept those businesses open , and so on, and so forth. If you don't think I'm right then please feel free to take an economics class, or look at the current recession.

- The developer benefited from the original sale of the game

- I benefited from paying a cheaper price

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The problem with piracy is it has little risk/high reward, and human behavior appeals to that in a huge way. It's very difficult to resist something thats free, especially in this society where many people don't even have a job to start with. The laughable part is when these same people are confronted with the question "why would you commit piracy" and they come up with such absurd reasoning for it. I would honestly rather these people just come out and say "I was lazy and I wanted something for free", at least then I would know they were telling the truth.