What is your stance on piracy?

[twesterm]

madkiller said:

twesterm said:

madkiller said:
Piracy does NOT cost the industry any money because most of the people that pirate would not have bought most of the products they pirated anyway.

No. Just no. That's not how it goes.

Do you get to go to a movie for free because it's one you probably wouldn't have watched in the first place? Do you get to eat a fancy restaurant for free because it's one you probably wouldn't get to go to? Do you get to go to a sports game for free because it's a team you don't cheer for?

No on all those.

So why should you get to enjoy a game that you otherwise wouldn't have bought for free? You don't. These people are hurting the industry because they are enabling others and they are getting something for nothing. It is not some clever ploy to get people to buy more games, they actually are hurting the people that make the games you enjoy.

First of all, those examples you gave are completely different and have nothing to do with the issue. Secondly, I already said I don't really pirate games. Once again, it does NOT cost the industry money because they have NOT lost sales. Those sales would not have been there in the first place, they just assume they would. However, I guarantee someone that has 2000 movies, CDs and games pirated would not ahve paid for all of those.

 You completely missed what I was getting at: why should somebody get something for free that everyone else has to pay for?

Those people that you say would never have payed for the game still got the game and that's all that matters.  They had some reason to want to play it and they are hurting the industry.  It's just that simple.  If someone wants to play the game, they have to pay for it.  They aren't special and they don't get to play for free.

And I have had about 1000+ DVD's (recently sold many of them), about 50 games at any given time, and about 3000 MP3's which are all legal.