Which is moraly (not legaly) worse? Secondhand _ Pirating _ Renting_Lending

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Alterego-X said:

Akvod said:
 Pirating is immoral because it violates another person's right to property (intellectual). Re-selling/giving games isn't immoral because you aren't breaching the developer's right to intellectual property, and practicing your own right to property.

Even if pirating helps the gaming industry, they're still violating the rights of other human beings.

So pirating is immoral, because it is illegal? Even if it benefits gaming, and generally the greater picture, it should be forbidden simply because it violates current IP laws?

I guess you would also say that it was immoral to help the Jews escape from the orders of the legally ruling Nazi party. 

 

(And yes, I totally invoked Godwin's Law, after 235 posts this was inevitable.)

Pirating is illegal. Not only are you harming a company's intellectual rights, but also causing companies to want to license products to people in digital form instead of hard format. Not only are they coming after the likes of Gamestop, but they are coming after the fans as well. This can be seen very well with digital games on consoles and the PSP Go. You don't own digitally formated games. You only have the right to play them. All the rest of the rights belong to the creator and publisher. Piracy doesn't create interest into anything but pirating. It became a modern craze with Napster and practically demolished the recold sales of the music industry and now it is coming for gaming. Piracy benefits only those who want to game for free, not the industry because it doesn't stimulate it in anyway and makes you a target for the government. Pirated games are not the official versions of a game because they've been recreated (Which is illegal in every media form and you see it before movie credits) in a file format (like MP3) and shared like wildfire. This is the major reason NPD refuses to record PC sales.