-Why I Pirate- Is piracy justifiable?

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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?

Someone lost money.

Because if you had not gotten those games for free chances are you would have purchased other games instead.( or maybe you would have spent the 20 hours or so you spent playing Xenoblade just sitting on your bum but that is unlikely).

When entertainment products can be gotten for free it reduces the market for every entertainment company, be it the one you pirated or one of it's competitor.