ishiki said:
Zkuq said:
I'd say it all comes down to whether you trust Steam or not. Valve has all the control and you don't actually own any of the games. You can pretty much trust them but should any trouble come, you could be screwed. Of course Steam isn't all bad and it has tons of good sides, too, including low prices. Unless you have trust issues or too little money, I'd advise you to go with Steam. Should you go with piracy, though, I won't condemn you - I'll never do that as long as DRM is present, and Steam is a form of DRM.
ishiki said:
If you steal popular games, you will get caught and a notice sent to you IP provider (atleast in US).
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It's not stealing. Theft removes the original copy, software piracy doesn't. Also, there's a reason it's not called theft in the law. And finally, I doubt what you say is true because I've generally heard very little of anything like that happening.
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You don't actually own the physical copies either, it's just a license. However, revoking your license for a physical copy is much more difficult and never going to happen, whereas banning your steam account is possible.
If you stole a physical copy of a game you're probably stealing 1 dollars in paper. If you "pirate" you're not stealing that 1 dollar in paper.
If you think about it... it's probably better for the game company if you steal the physical copy, as opposed to pirating a digital copy. Because they'll still get paid shipped to retail.
You won't get caught for every game, my brother got caught for Arkham Origins. I got caught back in the day for GTA3. Nothing happened ofcourse as a result, and even if you get the 6 strikes it probably wouldn't hold up in court.
http://gawker.com/5986813/welcome-to-the-us-copyright-alert-system-where-companies-can-slow-your-internet-if-you-download-illegally
But this is completely offtopic
Sorry Slimebeast.
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Do as much off-topic as you want. The risk of being caught, I think that's interesting too.
I always wondered, do gamers in the USA feel the risk of being caught for piracy is a real risk? And a risk that would have concerete and palpable consequences? As in, does it make them think twice if to pirate or not?
