brendude13 on 25 January 2012
| Runa216 said: Oh this could be a fun thread... I pirate from time to time, but only if I can't afford it otherwise (and as soon as I can afford it, I DO buy it, as my DVD/Blu ray shelf is a testament to.) I have over 500 DVDs. 75 blu ray movies, like a dozen TV shows in their entirety, and literally hundreds of games. I catch deals on steam, I catch deals at Wal Mart, and generally am a good consumer, but sometimes I just don't have money for something, so I pirate it. For instance, I pirated every season of house at one point, and I look over at my DVD shelf, and I see that I own the first 5 seasons (will be finishing that collection as soon as I can. I pirated Rome, I have both seasons of that. Titus, Family Guy, Arrested Development, The simpsons, Futurama, Firefly, Dexter..I've pirated every one of those shows and yet as I look over, BLAM, own them all legit. I was just surfing through my Movies that I've pirated over the last couple years and had to delete literally dozens of them because I now own them on DVD or more likely Blu Ray. I own two copies of Avatar on blu ray, three copies of the lord of the rings trilogy (originals, extended, and blu ray extended), I own a bunch of movies on DVD and blu ray (Die Hard series, Sin City, Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy plus On Stranger Tides) My point is, Nobody can get pissy at me for being a pirate, I buy more stuff than almost anyone I know, but I also pirate stuff. You look at my DVD shelf, and it's two layers deep with games, movies, and TV shows. I have a simple rule I live by: if you can afford it, pay for it. Movies and games are a luxury, so do your part. On the flipside, I see no harm in piracy when we have so many people working in hollywood making hundreds of thousands of times more money than I. I study box office trends, I track game sales. While some companies are doing poorly, Movies are as profitable as ever, Games break records yearly, and the economy only sucks for lower/middle class citizens. I feel no remorse over not giving some super rich guy more money that he doesn't need. When it comes to piracy, I see both sides of the coin. That said, I never pirate games...mostly because I won't mod my consoles and my PC isn't good enough to run most games anyway, so what's the point. also: Piracy is not theft. Theft would indicate that the item is taken away from the owner, we pirates are making copies. People have been doing this as long as there were recordable casette tapes and VHS tapes, and nobody bitched back then. |
Excellent post.
Would just like to add, I do pirate games for emulators (most of which I actually own) and I pirate Dreamcast games to burn onto a disc.
