Filesharing/Downloading Not wrong, just illegal in some places

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Rainbird said:
I think this article comes with an inherent problem when you post it on a gaming forum. It doesn't talk about gaming at all.

And I don't see how gaming benefits from it. I believe in the "If you haven't paid the price, you're not supposed to have it". Screw "potential lost sales", if you can't pay, you're not supposed to have it. And game companies don't have movie theaters or concerts to earn money from, they have their games and only that. What gaming does have, is several platforms that they can release their game on, and try to hit their demographics best.

You have Steam, PSN, XBLA, WW and both the DS and PSP that allow for smaller games to be developed and be succesfull, and you have the full fledged retail games that release for all hardware platforms.

The only thing I don't consider a problem, is borrowing out games to friends. I'm going to need that back, so it becomes more of a taster than anything else, in my experience at least.

Everything in this article concerns gaming.

Why is it not a problem when you borrow a game to your friends?

According to your logic to filesharing/downloading when you borrow a game to your friend your are preventing a sale for the developer and that is a lost sale, double standards?

Your friend maybe finishes the game and wont buy the original because you lent him the game or maybe he makes a back up of your original which would make you a partner in this so riddicioulous so called crime.