-Why I Pirate- Is piracy justifiable?

[Icyedge]

Kasz216 said:

Icyedge said:

 

You legally can, and thats even good for the artist. Its publicity for their current work, then their future works might have enough demand to license and release it here.

The other great thing behind piracy is distribution of discontinued works. That isnt legal though, but maybe it should.

Its down to the publisher and/or artist to license and distribute their works in your country, if they dont, then its their problem not yours.

The counter arguement to that would be the Virtual console and it's ilk.   If I pirated Super Mario Bros 3 anywhere between the SNES to Wii era what's my motivation to buy it?

Yes I agree, thats a good counter argument. But I find a bit sad that some great works are left in oblivion. We never know if those works will ever be distributed again. For example, I recently burn a copy of Dragon Force on sega saturn, i lost my copy and couldnt find it. I could have bought it used over ebay, but then, it would still not give anything to the publisher and the artists. Personally, I feel ok with downloading undistributed piece of work.