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Slimebeast on 18 April 2010
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NJ5 said:
Slimebeast said:

You don't have to comment that "not every pirated sale is a lost sale" because that's pretty obvious. We knew that already. But even if theres only 1 lost sale for every 10 pirated games, that's still lost sales and means financial impact on someone.

Maybe you knew it, but Zucas and other people don't take it into account when they say that piracy is always theft under a broad definition of theft that also includes virtual losses.

IMO it's ridiculous enough to call something theft when nothing is being removed, but to go as far as to call something theft when it can have no impact at all, that's too much.

 

I understand your point, and I understand the point of the thread/news, that the discussion of piracy and it's implications is complex. Like you said the example when you played around with expensive software as a kid, it not only could introduce you into computers and make it more likely to buy smilar software as an adult, but there's also this argument of education, you get passionate about comps, become self-trained and contribute to the economy buy being a productive individual thanks to that knowledge etc etc.

There are many arguments and factors, and obviously we need to get rid of this "1 pirated copy is 1 lost sale".

One comment on the green though. Do you really think that's ridiculous?

Do you know the game Mount & Blade? It's a niche strategy/RPG PC game developed by a small Turkish independent studio. Many people in forums and gametrailers flame the game for having weak graphics. It's pretty obvious it hasn't got top-notch grafix due to their limited resources.

I pirated the game. Many others did too. Now the sequel M&B Warband came out, with the same graphcis and you hear the same comments. Again it's due to limited resources.

I feel that we who pirated the game, by not contributing financially to something we enjoyed without asking permission, we as a collective removed something. We removed income to the developer and we removed quality from the sequel by denying it resources. Because a proportion of us would have paid for it if it wasn't so easy to pirate.

*Now I ended up buying the sequel because it demands a CD key for the multiplayer (the original didn't have any). But if I couldnt have pirated any of them I probably would have paid for both games and thus the dev would have gotten more money in their pockets.