-Why I Pirate- Is piracy justifiable?

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enrageorange said:

The attempted explanation of piracy not being stealing is a huge fail. It's like saying shoplifting isn't stealing because you aren't stealing from an individual person and the company can just make more of the items you stole...

Anyway piracy is never justifiable. Its crazy that people can convince themselves that since they would have never bought the item they were going to pirate its perfectly okay to pirate it. So does that mean I can steal all the rolexes, ferraris, and dildos I ever see because I was never planning to buy them anyway... The thing is when you pirate, the company loses a potential customer, you! And if your one of the people that pirates things, and buys them if you enjoy them, that still isn't justified. You can try a demo of the game, or rent it, or if neither is an option, take a risk and buy it if you want to. You can't just steal it and then maybe pay the person later on when you are positive that you are satisfied with the product.

Yes DRM is probably one of the most annoying things ever invented. Yes it is lame that you don't actually own a lot of the products you buy. But the thing is, you can fight those policies by JUST NOT BUYING THE PRODUCT, instead of stealing it. Whats the difference you may ask? Businesses keep track of how often their products are being pirated and use that information as justification to keep including these invasive features to attempt to reduce piracy. If piracy couldn't be blamed for poor sales, then companies would actually focus on making a better and more convinient product instead of focusing on preventing piracy with drm which must be more successful than you may think. If companies have been spending millions of dollars over the past two decades improving drm, then obviously it is somewhat helping. Remember businesses never do things for the lulz... They would only continue the policy if it is helping them in one way or another. And the only way people can show them that drm is worthless or that not giving you full ownership of the porduct you buy is a sham, is by neither buying NOR pirating those products.

You seriously comparing a copy of a product purchased and owned by someone else and then copied by that same person and placed on the internet to a man entering and robbing a store?

If I make a copy of one of my music albums and place it on Mediafire and you download it, who did you rob?