-Why I Pirate- Is piracy justifiable?

[Mr Khan]

Euphoria14 said:

Seece said:

KylieDog said:

Seece said:

KylieDog said:

Seece said:
All lame, weak excuses, trying to justify what they're doing (and failing)

DRM is not a lame excuse.  If you buy a movie digitally you should be allowed to burn it to DVD to watch how you like, you bought it.  Like region locks on consoles.  If I am willing to buy the game and part with my cash for it...why stop me playing it.

It's not stopping you from playing it?

Yes it is?  If I buy a game only released in japan for 3DS I cannot play that on my euro 3DS.  Since the DRM is stopping me playing it and thus giving me no reason to buy it...if 3DS gets hacked to play pirate games then there isn't any harm done by pirating such a game.  I was willing to pay, DRM stopped me.

Well you're clearly not suppose to be buying that game anyway, as it didn't come out in your country.

So what is the harm in downloading it anyways? Did Nintendo lose money because I downloaded Xenoblade for my US Wii and Soma Bringer for my DSLite R4?

That's the tricky question of it. Would you have imported it if the piracy alternative were unavailable?

Though i must say what i acquire by these means is similar to your idea. I personally only pirate when the item is prohibitively difficult to even find legitimately. Three series have i ever torrented, SWAT Kats in 2008, Megas XLR also in 08, and Queen's Blade in 2010. SWAT Kats is currently only available on DVD through special order to Warner Bros and that only started in late 2010, Megas has never been rereleased anywhere, and Queen's Blade took about a year to come overseas in legitimate form.

And i ask; if it's so easy for pirates to do it, why aren't the companies doing it themselves and making some money? Especially in cases of older or more obscure series like SK and Megas, or of very niche series like Queen's Blade. And so often these pirates do all this for free (that is, not only free for consumers, but none of the crackers/translators/scanners/encoders are getting paid either), so imagine how much better it all could be if someone, with help from the actual rights-holder and the incentive of a paying job, could do all this.