-Why I Pirate- Is piracy justifiable?

[Euphoria14]

Ail said:

Euphoria14 said:

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.

You can't prove that at all. There is nothing to prove that if I hadn't pirated Xenoblade in September I would have bought something else. At that time I was spending $1.99 to rent a game per night at my local Red Box Kiosk and beating them. Only costed me $3.98 to beat Uncharted 3.

Who is to say that had I not had the ability to get it for free I would have used my $50+ to buy new collared shirts for work? Nothing proves that money not spent on a title would have otherwise been spent on that title or on one of a different company had an avenue for piracy not been available.