vlad321 said:
O that makes sense. Where did the pirates get that copy to beginwith? Hmmm... unless it wass stolen out of the publisher's warehouse I'm pretty sure some retailer had to originally buy i from them. Yes they'll lose potential sales but they will still get something for that first individual copy. |
Ah very nice. It seems you are good at the arts of imitation. Although a valid point, it is definitely a hackneyed one as you leave out very important information. That being the spread of one digital copy can reach anyone who has the ability to get it while one used copy theoretically couldn't do the same... or if it did then that would be quite impressive itself. But even more so... you and I both know your statement isn't the norm. For the most part the people that put those games up don't actually buy them but instead find other ways to get them up there. Now maybe you are speaking for some of the time but that doesn't necessarily put it on the same magnitude of that of used games where it always has to be bought by the retailer first... unless they steal it directly from the publisher.
Now if you want to commit fallacies of withheld information then you go right on ahead... but your argument isn't going to get past me. Trying to relate pirates to used game is not a good enough analogy and really will fail everytime. Publishers lose a lot of money from used games... no doubt about that, but they are always guaranteed a sell on that copy and that copy can't be distributed to large magnitudes of people. Maybe your wording lack of words will fool others... but know who you are dealing with.
