vlad321 said:
Kantor said:
vlad321 said:
Zucas said:
vlad321 said:
Zucas said:
Only pirating is immoral. It is the only one where the publisher (not the developer as they have no role in this part) is not actually selling the copy to someone. In all the others, the developer has already sold that copy so at least they got something out of it. In pirating... they get nothing. |
Same with used games as well. They see nothing from them.
@ironman
Counterfeits are not perfect copies and unless it's money they get tried for fraud not sopyright infringement.
As to used game sales being good for the industry, then so are pirated games. Developers see none of the money in either case.
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Oh that makes sense. Where did they get the used copy to begin with? Hmm... unless it was stolen out of the publisher's warehouse I'm pretty sure some retailer had to originally buy it from them. Yes they'll lose potential sales but they will still get something for that first individual copy.
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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.
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The difference is that in a used game sale, the seller loses the game, and it goes to one person. In a pirating, the seller keeps the game, and thousands of people play the game without giving a penny/cent to the publisher/developer.
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On the individual scale it doesn't matter, the developer doesn't get his money from me. I doubt they can give a flying damn about whether the copy is still on my PC or not.
P.S. Where is zenfolder when you need him. He provided a much more interesting debater about this issue....
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That's not the point. The point is that in a used game sale, there are only as many used games available as people who returned the game, and in a pirating, there is an unlimited supply of copies of the game which are readily available.
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