Similar evil? Used games retail business = Illegal downloading/torrenting?

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Galaki said:

twesterm said:

Don86 said:

How come both of these options are considered equally bad for the industry?

The only people that consider them equally bad are the people that are trying to justify their piracy and shift the focus of the argument.  That's all that really needs to be said.

That's unfair calling on pirates as we've seen numerous publishers claiming that.

Why is this unfair? Pirating games is illegal and for good reasons. Someone put work into the pirated game and has the right to get the money the market is willing to pay for it.

The funniest argument ever is when someone says "I'm just making a copy of it, it's no theft!" But legally what matters is the financial damage dealt to the developer / publisher. Not whether you took something away or not.