Not in the winter!

I love piracy!!!!!! I just wish I had a 360 or wii. I need to buy it and pirate all I can. for My ps3 I will never do it even if it was possible n cheap the technology is too good to fuck up

I am against piracy of video games, Piracy is a large reason that games are so expensive, Most developers work very hard one these games, I have a developer in the family, I see the 18 plus hour days he pulls, there are times he stays for a week straight , even longer, the only time he gets a break is every few years after the game is finished and its launched. These guys deserve to make the money one these games, The more money made, the more money they get for the next game, which means a better game. So that is my stand on game piracy.

In countries as mine (Argentina), if it wasn't because of piracy people wouldn't be able to play games.
Back in the day of the N64, I payed 120 dollars avarage per game.
My Wii costed 700 dollars and I was fotunate enough to get my PS3 Slim in Japan, because you can only get one here for more than 550 dollars.
Not only that: the average salary in my country is between 500 and 700 dollars, so, guess what.
Wii, XBOX 360 and PS3 games are around $80 but sometimes even more.
Translation: though there is a huge demand for gaming, people cannot afford those huge prices. Therefore, piracy is huge.

In my experience teachers still "hint" getting software through alternative methods. Though they openly suggests getting the "student" license.

We all have a box in our houses that can copy any data we want, directly saving us money whilst (potentially) indirectly costing someone else money, yet we're told it is wrong to do so.

In my opinion, the interests of the masses outweighs the interests of the few.

If a company goes out of business, its business plan was ineffective. Simple. Nobody cries for the man who sold ice before we all had freezers.


File sharing is not immoral, nor a form of theft. If anything, it's a reflection of our technological advances. There's no coming back.

I am against, but already got ilegal downloads on the past, since I couldn´t find in store..

I own a PS3 and PSP both will all legal games and content.. also on PC and notebook with all legal..

The problem is that kids get access to piracy and they think it´s eazier than going to the mall and ask daddy..

It happens with music, it happens with tv series and games... so... there´s a hole culture that should be exposed..

I can't say it's right or wrong.

The sort of people who gets the info about something has few monies to disburse yet they are convinced of the need. They'd use most of their monies for food, clothing, rents and healthcare and the rest would be meager. With this, the easier solution would be to go for the product which would be at a reduced price. But that would take time for the price to drop and the option remaining would be to pirate.

Most people would like to try a product before they buy so that they don't end up paying for crap which they can't or would fell guilty to return. Good products sells and bad ones ruin the image for consumers.

Some people pirate also because, they don't have the product around them to buy or even rent esp. those in Africa, Asia and South America. Most products tend to be for specific kinds of people but the product advertisement entices them through the web and they don't have credit cards to even trade on line. Even if it would be available to them, the price would also be very expensive which they wouldn't afford.

At the moment, there are more products that are needs to many with less monies in hand.
It is only when people could afford to buy every for themselves that piracy would be considered wrong.

We also all have (well, most of us) hands and legs which can kick and punch through glass windows or take a loaf of bread from the market and walk out without paying for it.  Is that not immoral just because I have these things (well, we mostly do).  The masses would LOVE free bread, but the bread maker and store clerk definetly wouldn't like giving it away for free.  Clothes too while I'm at it, I guess all of these business should go out of business.

Your ice seller analogy is not a good one to piracy as it's not the same thing.  That would be analogous to a business who dunno, allowed you to back up all your games on their big back up machine (they had the tech to do it while others did not) and died once the back up machine tech became widespread and cheap.

Filesharing is immoral but is unstoppable in the digital universe and resources are better spent trying not to sell software but to sell services.