All lame, weak excuses, trying to justify what they're doing (and failing)

In the country I live, there is no store specialized on selling Bluray movies. :(. So I dont have much option.
Software-wise I have all my games legally; PS1/PS2/PS3/PSP/PC :D

Honestly I want to listen to as much music as I can so I pirate it, easiest and cheapest way to do it

It's not stopping you from playing it?

Well you're clearly not suppose to be buying that game anyway, as it didn't come out in your country.

pezus said:

I love this infographic, because the only reason the album download isn't right up near cdbaby is because of the outrageous money grab of the label. But without a vast, complicated physical distribution network, one of the key services a label provides falls away completely. With modern audio technology, labels are far from necessary for production as well.

So the only real value a record label provides right now is marketing. If an artist can self-market (Hello, internet!) and sell only 20% as many albums dealing directly with digital retailers, they can earn more money than if they sign with a label.

There's also a lot of data cut off from that infographic which demonstrates that services like Spotify provide a comically pathetic amount of money to artists. Since Spotify isn't even making money for itself, I've got to wonder what the point of the service is if it doesn't manage to get anybody paid.

I only pirate music, because I just can't justify paying for CD's knowing that the artist that I know and love will barely benefit from it, if anything I'd much rather go to the gigs like I do sometimes with the artists I like.

Whereas I think game piracy is just too morally wrong for me, and I'd feel bad if the developer whos game I've pirated goes under, which rarely happens with good artists as the CD's barely bring anything in to begin with.

What good reason is there to prevent someone from playing a game according to his country of residence?

Another thing that bothers me about people getting on pirates cases is sometimes money is not your fault, when youre in your teens and not born to a rich family how can you make enough money to buy tons of music. Conversely, why should someone who was simply born rich get to experience more music movies etc than someone who isn't but who could be more passionate about? Also, you can't control where you are born so that should also limit your choices of what you can experience? Fuck that I only have so much time in my life to do things siooooooo i'm going to make the most of it.

That graph is ridiculous and the claim that the artist only gets $1 off of each $10 CD sold on iTunes or in retail.