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Trolly trolls are trolling.

 

 

I'll admit I'm a pirate, but I'm not going to say I'm a thief. I pirate games I would never buy, or games that I'd only ever buy used, or games that I had bought and then lost, or I pirate for convenience (i.e. I have 40 DS games, but I put them on an Acekard 2i for the convenience) .

 

IMO a developer never gets my money if I'd never buy their game, and they'd never get my money if I bought it used (only Gamestop would). I buy old games for the Virtual Console because a company gave me the ability to pay for their old games, but if the VC didn't exist I'd go through other, less legal means in order to play those games, sorta like how I had an entire collection of ROMs that I played on my Dreamcast.

 

The worst case against me is that I pirate games that I wouldn't buy, because most of those games I'd buy if the price was right, I just don't feel that publishers establish appropriate prices very often.



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twesterm said:
icefaii said:
Seece said:
icefaii said:
Seece said:

No i don't need to, your justification is pathetic, pirating a game ruins the game industry, using an image does not. They're clearly not the same.

It seems your puny brain cannot comprehend copyright infringement.

Like I said, copyright infringement(unauthorized use of copyright material; since you cannot comprehend) has nothing to do with ruining the game industry or not. You either pirate or you dont. its that simple.

By your definition piracy only counts when it comes to your favourite gaming industry? your ethic is so fucking laughable.

I didn't say it only counts when it comes to the gaming industry, it counts in downloading films, music and games, and I'm sure other cases. using images on the internet however IS different, and doesn't put people out of business. You know this. So you can use all the jargon you like, but it'll never be the same. I can sleep sound at night knowing I'm not stealing from any game developer, can you? Likely not.

Another pirate that thinks the world owes them everything you'll end up in the slammer with that attitude.


A misconception about piracy is, its not piracy when the developers are not losing money.  Copyright infringement is copyright infringement regardless if the developers are losing money or not.  Yes you can argue the level of piracy is different. But a small pirate bashing on a big pirate still doesnt have much ground in ethics and reasonings. 

Dont tell me you say this to your professor, "uhh the author of this article is not losing money, so its not piracy and I dont need to cite or reference him..."

That will probably get you a big fat F on your essay.


I think this fits in well here:


LOL idiots are idiots, still cannot understand copyright law. What i stated are facts not analogy.

this fits you

 



Congratulations guys, I give everyone in this thread 5 scruples.

...I mean, that's what you guys want, right? To be morally correct?

How many of you actually hate piracy?

Are you actually morally enraged when someone pirates a game, or do you actually like to have scruples for once?

I never pirate games, but seeing people acting so high-and-mighty like this always annoys me.

"Hey let's ban everyone who pirates games!"

Are you guys serious?

@Seece

What came first, your hatred of zexen, or your hatred of piracy?



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Itsudatte itsudatte itsudatte

Sugu yoko de waratteita

Nakushitemo torimodosu kimi wo

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dtewi said:

Congratulations guys, I give everyone in this thread 5 scruples.

...I mean, that's what you guys want, right? To be morally correct?

How many of you actually hate piracy?

Are you actually morally enraged when someone pirates a game, or do you actually like to have scruples for once?

I never pirate games, but seeing people acting so high-and-mighty like this always annoys me.

"Hey let's ban everyone who pirates games!"

Are you guys serious?

@Seece

What came first, your hatred of zexen, or your hatred of piracy?


Nope, these people just think they are morally superior since they only pirate the small stuffs and piracy doesn't count when its not game. LMFAO.



twesterm said:


What would those 2 aircrafts produce?



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dtewi said:

Congratulations guys, I give everyone in this thread 5 scruples.

...I mean, that's what you guys want, right? To be morally correct?

How many of you actually hate piracy?

Are you actually morally enraged when someone pirates a game, or do you actually like to have scruples for once?

I never pirate games, but seeing people acting so high-and-mighty like this always annoys me.

"Hey let's ban everyone who pirates games!"

Are you guys serious?

@Seece

What came first, your hatred of zexen, or your hatred of piracy?

I don't hate Zexen, I just dislike a lot of what he does. It's none of your business regardless, stop sticking your nose in.



 

Seece said:
dtewi said:

Congratulations guys, I give everyone in this thread 5 scruples.

...I mean, that's what you guys want, right? To be morally correct?

How many of you actually hate piracy?

Are you actually morally enraged when someone pirates a game, or do you actually like to have scruples for once?

I never pirate games, but seeing people acting so high-and-mighty like this always annoys me.

"Hey let's ban everyone who pirates games!"

Are you guys serious?

@Seece

What came first, your hatred of zexen, or your hatred of piracy?

I don't hate Zexen, I just dislike a lot of what he does. It's none of your business regardless, stop sticking your nose in.

Of course it's my business. It's everyone's business since you decided to post in this thread. Everything posted in a thread has a right to be discussed.

If you didn't want to talk about it, you shouldn't have gone around in here saying "Let's ban the mod who pirates games!"



Kimi wa ne tashika ni ano toki watashi no soba ni ita

Itsudatte itsudatte itsudatte

Sugu yoko de waratteita

Nakushitemo torimodosu kimi wo

I will never leave you

This thread took a pretty bad turn.

Pirates, your bad people. No matter how hard you try to justify your behaviour, your doing something illegal. If your doing something illegal, then that makes you a little bit evil. I'm sorry, but that's how it goes. 

Also, I am morally superior to you, because I purchase the products I want like a normal person, instead of going out of my way to download and play games that I apparently hate and would never buy anyway, even though I just downloaded and played it.

Twesterm is correct, you should be banned for being a burden on the industry I love and that you must at least like, otherwise I don't know why you'd be on a gaming forum.

The Dreamcast, the PC, the PSP and Alan Wake are now crying because of you guys.



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dtewi said:
Seece said:
dtewi said:

Congratulations guys, I give everyone in this thread 5 scruples.

...I mean, that's what you guys want, right? To be morally correct?

How many of you actually hate piracy?

Are you actually morally enraged when someone pirates a game, or do you actually like to have scruples for once?

I never pirate games, but seeing people acting so high-and-mighty like this always annoys me.

"Hey let's ban everyone who pirates games!"

Are you guys serious?

@Seece

What came first, your hatred of zexen, or your hatred of piracy?

I don't hate Zexen, I just dislike a lot of what he does. It's none of your business regardless, stop sticking your nose in.

Of course it's my business. It's everyone's business since you decided to post in this thread. Everything posted in a thread has a right to be discussed.

If you didn't want to talk about it, you shouldn't have gone around in here saying "Let's ban the mod who pirates games!"

No it isn't, I didn't bring up my dislike of him, just that ALL people here who are proud to pirate should be banned, they go against pretty much what VGC stands for.



 

Seece said:
dtewi said:
Seece said:
dtewi said:

Congratulations guys, I give everyone in this thread 5 scruples.

...I mean, that's what you guys want, right? To be morally correct?

How many of you actually hate piracy?

Are you actually morally enraged when someone pirates a game, or do you actually like to have scruples for once?

I never pirate games, but seeing people acting so high-and-mighty like this always annoys me.

"Hey let's ban everyone who pirates games!"

Are you guys serious?

@Seece

What came first, your hatred of zexen, or your hatred of piracy?

I don't hate Zexen, I just dislike a lot of what he does. It's none of your business regardless, stop sticking your nose in.

Of course it's my business. It's everyone's business since you decided to post in this thread. Everything posted in a thread has a right to be discussed.

If you didn't want to talk about it, you shouldn't have gone around in here saying "Let's ban the mod who pirates games!"

No it isn't, I didn't bring up my dislike of him, just that ALL people here who are proud to pirate should be banned, they go against pretty much what VGC stands for.

You only care about banning the pirates since zexen is that group.

And I brought up the dislike, because you said you wanted zexen to be banned. Simple cause and effect. You stated something, I questioned your motive behind it, simple as that.

Simply avoiding saying the name zexen doesn't mean that you didn't mention him either.



Kimi wa ne tashika ni ano toki watashi no soba ni ita

Itsudatte itsudatte itsudatte

Sugu yoko de waratteita

Nakushitemo torimodosu kimi wo

I will never leave you