It has also been shown that demos decrease game sales.

You can justify it all you want, it's still wrong. Go tell the goverment you'll pay your taxes every oher year and donate some money to a good cause now and then to make it even. It's not for you to decide what you'll pay for and what not.

What ever it's stealing or copying i don't fu**ing care, blame new world order, civilization, dollar domination, American culture influence, while making the world like this. If we cannot cope with first world country then our people cannot follow everything. American and western make people become addicted with their product while increasing their price, while our money currency cannot follow the price. So like it or not piracy is a natural thing, as long there is a gap between rich people (county ) and poor people (country ) then there will be piracy, blame capitalism. deal with it, no piracy there will be no market.

To a certain extent I do agree that the system as a whole is flawed on a fundamental level, especially now as we move ever further towards the obsolescence of physical media and the rise of digital distribution. I'll even go so far as to accept that a pirated copy does not necessarily equate to a lost sale, and there are yet more grey areas in regards to out of print or abundantly rare media that would otherwise be nigh impossible to obtain through proper channels.

However, I do not accept these as excuses for this behavior. Sure, maybe they wouldn't have purchased the media anyway, but what kind of retarded mental gymnastics does one have to go through to think that somehow justifies their actions? I'm not saying don't pirate, at this point it's pretty much just a fact of life, but please don't pretend like you're some sort of freedom fighter sticking it to the man or some deluded nonsense like that.

This is truly a dumb question. Piracy and drm are on both extremes of the ways the industry gets fucked.

I forgot /s for the bolded. Since you are not trying to hide it guess it's alright, dont care about your morals nor I was trying to change the way you do things and make you see the light. Just dont come here and act like it's the cool thing to do.

I think johnny Depp is excellent!

They are legal to sell as long as they don't autoskip commercials... Actually I can't find what came of that court case https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120525/04185919074/tv-networks-file-legal-claims-saying-skipping-commercials-is-copyright-infringement.shtml

Recording to watch later is legal, distributing that recording is not. I guess this describes that but I'm too tired atm to read legal

Not copyright infringement:
(11) the making imperceptible, by or at the direction of a member of a private household, of limited portions of audio or video content of a motion picture, during a performance in or transmitted to that household for private home viewing, from an authorized copy of the motion picture, or the creation or provision of a computer program or other technology that enables such making imperceptible and that is designed and marketed to be used, at the direction of a member of a private household, for such making imperceptible, if no fixed copy of the altered version of the motion picture is created by such computer program or other technology.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/110


As long as you don't steal it from your friend you're in the clear. Right of first sale doctrine and such. You can lend, trade or sell your legal copy.
http://www.generalpatent.com/copyright-101
Also too tired to read through that :p

As a 16 year old broke kid. I do pirate a lot. Apart from hardware I've never bought any original software. All of my consoles are cracked and I even bought some cracked from the store . I've been very lucky to be able to pirate a ton of games throughout my whole life. I've been able to play multiple games from platforming, shooters, RPG's and so on. I've been able to download any game my heart desires ( If I had the hardware to play it on obviously ) and although I didn't finish all of them, I've found a couple of gems which I wouldn't even have considered If I was paying out of my wallet.

Getting a PS4 would mean that I would have to stop pirating ( Mainly since it's very hard to actually crack a PS4 and their may be online restrictions after cracking the console ) and just buy fewer games which I already know that I'm going to enjoy.

TL;DR: Pirating helps you branch out in terms of gaming since their's no financial risk. So pirating is actually pretty awesome to help see what games genres you like .

Extra cool points if you realised this was job character models from FFXI, showing a redmage mithra, a corsair elvaan, and a  ninja hume.

Spotify + playlists on youtube + listning to radio => why would you download any music? maybe thats just me though.

I grew up in Eastern Block and we couldn't even buy legal PC games in 90s. I have PC jewels from that time I can't determine if they are original legal copies or pirated. They were shrink wrapped and CDs were labeled but they didn't have manuals and any trace of publisher.

I'm against piracy but in my country around 80% of people earn no more than 500 euros a month, many less. How do you think they feel about 60 euro games LOL that's more than 10% of their monthly income.