Mummelmann said:
Aquiring copy =/= theft, the car would still be standing in the lot for someone else to buy What GOG is saying is this; "Take this car for a test drive, perhaps you'll want to buy it!" Still a better attitude than; "Fuck you, we'll ruin your games with DRM and everyone but the pirates will be affected by this." zarx; you have nothing pirated on your PC? MP3's, TV shows, movies? There are more horrible things to do in this world than pirate stuff, I hardly think pirating games makes you a bad person by default. What about services like Grooveshark or free Spotify? Content available for use to end users without being paid for, its not like commercials income will rack up a fortune (and Grooveshark doesn't even have advertising at all). PS: For the record, no I don't pirate my games but I do download TV shows on torrent sites since they either show up here a year after everywhere else or simply isn't available at all. |
Are you kidding me? Downloading illegal copies does = theft but I'm not here to attack the people that do it. I'm arguing against the people who blindly support it. First off it's not a test drive but a "here is the car sir. It is yours but if you like it please come back and buy a second". This rips off the seller and legal buyers. Of course a few will use the download as a demo but a lot more will play the whole thing, not like it too much, and move on. The entertainment industry does not directly make money on satisfaction, but through marketing convincing consumers to buy. If a kid thinks a game looks cool and buys it only to discover it's so so, how is it fair? If he broke the law and downloaded the game he would have saved $60 yet he didn't. Instead the legal consumer is penalized. Rant over lol
On a side note, I do agree current security efforts suck. Hackers will bypass whatever is used so why not just get rid of it and use a different approach.
