This.

I've never denied being a bastard.  I personally would love it if there was a way to destroy all pirates computers and I absolutely loved it when MS made that update that bricked peoples modded 360's.

i was hoping you were gonna talk about real pirates :(

itching powder in coke, that would be the same as your game playing 5 minutes then poping a screen saying " thanks for playing, the cops will be there in about an hour to confiscate all your material, and hand you the documents for the trail". This is a response that would be effective and legal (first time pirates would not pirate anymore etc....)
(well the itching power could be considered poisoning the users and other things but you should get the point)
360 and MS's firmware are under a license agreement, by bricking them for illegal usage, all MS risks is to have to reimburse the console but in exchange they could sue the user for piracy.


Computers are not exclusively gaming tools they are used for work, storage of intelectual property (these two are their principal usage actually) and leasure. Attacking it would have immesurable consequences as you don't know the usage for each user.
(say it's a company computer, you harm the company, not the employee and you get all the rewards of a trail against you for creation and propagation of malicious software with the intent of destruction of property)

Being a bastard and having deficiency in your moral standards is not quite the same thing. The example of coke shows restraint in that thinking, but your use of LOVE for DESTRUCTION of other's property with the added belief of impunity shows more than a psycopathic tendency.

Sorry if i seem agressive.
For some reason I relate destroying the ignorant guy's computer and proably doing hudge damage to him while delecting in that knowledge to those gory games and movies that have appeared in the past few years where people are mutilated and killed just for the "fun of it". And I saw one of these yesterday which leaves me feeling revolted and thus a bit edgy. I think all these should be prohibited...

lolololol

same.

So you're saying people should break the law without any real threats of consequence? 

The reason pirating is so rampant is because you can do it and not really worry about getting caught.  That would at least give people som fear.

Here's a newsflash: if you're afriad of losing all your work things or whatever, don't put your computer at risk.  If for some reason you did get caught for pirating you do know your computer would be seized and you would likely never get it back right?

Yeah, but it's a 360, not a multi-purpose computer... If a MS firmware can brick a modded gaming console, that's fine (and i'm shure that was consulted with their lawyers to make it bulletproof, unless there's a loophole they did their job well), but when your company ruins hard drives that have different stuff out of your jurisdiction, then you're in serious trouble, especially if these people have work stuff in there...

I myself am a computer systems analyst, designer and developer (and now i'm learning game development), and when i start my company, i will talk to my lawyers about what can i do and what i can't do about this issue, because if i have to choose between losing sales due to piracy and being sued for millions (and losing sales because of the bad publicity), i will choose the first one...

Nobody is forcing you to risk your computer and everything on it when you pirate.  You're the one putting all that information at risk, don't try to shift around blame.

Ah, twestern going nuts over pirates again.

So i finished my download this morning, and I am already at the tribal stage. I am trying to alternate between destruction and peace but destruction is so much more fun. Peace on the other hand is much safer, especially when there are multiple tribes against you and you cant afford to lose your people because another village is about to raid you.