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nitekrawler1285 on 23 November 2009

It's not stealing. It's copyright infringement.

Most people give a rats ass about copyright infringement.



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Haste262 on 23 November 2009

they do not lose anything

I dnno they may lose, whats that thing again? Oh yea, money.

Pirates should not moan for getting banned, its completely idiotic. They deserve banning at the very least and should just accept it. This thread/your post is pretty idiotic tbh. No offence, but it is clearly stealing.



 

 

AlJensen on 23 November 2009

Your Thread Title is a perfect Oxymoron statement



 

 

dystopia on 23 November 2009
Haste262 said:
they do not lose anything

I dnno they may loose, whats that thing again? Oh yea, money.

Pirates should not moan for getting banned, its completely idiotic. They deserve banning at the very least and should just accept it. This thread/your post is pretty idiotic tbh. No offence, but it is clearly stealing.

I'm having a hard time understanding how admiting to doing something OFF SITE is a bannable offense. No matter if it's stealing or not, someone just says "I pirated a game once" they get banned? how can someone confirm that happened?



Haste262 on 23 November 2009
dystopia said:
Haste262 said:
they do not lose anything

I dnno they may loose, whats that thing again? Oh yea, money.

Pirates should not moan for getting banned, its completely idiotic. They deserve banning at the very least and should just accept it. This thread/your post is pretty idiotic tbh. No offence, but it is clearly stealing.

I'm having a hard time understanding how admiting to doing something OFF SITE is a bannable offense. No matter if it's stealing or not, someone just says "I pirated a game once" they get banned? how can someone confirm that happened?


I wasnt on about him there, i was just saying in general. Pirates deserve nothing less than a ban.



 

 

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noname2200 on 23 November 2009
dystopia said:
Haste262 said:
they do not lose anything

I dnno they may loose, whats that thing again? Oh yea, money.

Pirates should not moan for getting banned, its completely idiotic. They deserve banning at the very least and should just accept it. This thread/your post is pretty idiotic tbh. No offence, but it is clearly stealing.

I'm having a hard time understanding how admiting to doing something OFF SITE is a bannable offense. No matter if it's stealing or not, someone just says "I pirated a game once" they get banned? how can someone confirm that happened?

http://www.vgchartz.com/forum/thread.php?id=93265



dystopia on 23 November 2009
Haste262 said:
dystopia said:
Haste262 said:
they do not lose anything

I dnno they may loose, whats that thing again? Oh yea, money.

Pirates should not moan for getting banned, its completely idiotic. They deserve banning at the very least and should just accept it. This thread/your post is pretty idiotic tbh. No offence, but it is clearly stealing.

I'm having a hard time understanding how admiting to doing something OFF SITE is a bannable offense. No matter if it's stealing or not, someone just says "I pirated a game once" they get banned? how can someone confirm that happened?


I wasnt on about him there, i was just saying in general. Pirates deserve nothing less than a ban.

See I have to disagree, if it didn't happen on this site, how is it a bannable offense? Should someone get banned if they admited to commiting a felony before? That's just as serious an offense as copyright infringement, but how do you prove it's true? That's my biggest problem, how can you be sure someone did something just cause they said they did? y



JWS on 23 November 2009

silicon said:
By pirating you limit the revenue streams of some developers and publishers. These companies are fundamentally driven by creative work produced by teams of artists.

In order to for someone to fund a project such as a videogame, they require some knowledge that they will be allowed to recoup the costs to create the work.

By pirating games you steal from the rest of society the potential for greater and more innovative games due to the restrictions placed on developers in order to be able to recoup costs.

This also applys to people who rent, borrow and buy used games. Blockbuster and gamestop are no better than the guy who posts a game on the pirate bay.



STEKSTAV on 23 November 2009

This piracy thing is a modern day way for creators to mak more money, when speaking of entertainment media. I mean..

- If i record Mondy Night Football off of my TV for my out of country buddy who's in Iraq, im a pirate and should be sent to prison or fined accordingly?

- If i record a mix tape off of the Radio, make it portable for my MP3 player, im a pirate and should be sent to prison or fined accordingly?

- If i Tivo some tv show episodes to view with my friends at a later date, im a pirate and should be sent to prison or fined accordingly?

- If i borrow a game from a friend, He's a pirate and should be sent to prison or fined accordingly?

- If i use saved catche files to enjoy in an offline mode, im a pirate and should be sent to prison or fined accordingly?



noname2200 on 23 November 2009
dystopia said:
Haste262 said:
dystopia said:
Haste262 said:
they do not lose anything

I dnno they may loose, whats that thing again? Oh yea, money.

Pirates should not moan for getting banned, its completely idiotic. They deserve banning at the very least and should just accept it. This thread/your post is pretty idiotic tbh. No offence, but it is clearly stealing.

I'm having a hard time understanding how admiting to doing something OFF SITE is a bannable offense. No matter if it's stealing or not, someone just says "I pirated a game once" they get banned? how can someone confirm that happened?


I wasnt on about him there, i was just saying in general. Pirates deserve nothing less than a ban.

See I have to disagree, if it didn't happen on this site, how is it a bannable offense? Should someone get banned if they admited to commiting a felony before? That's just as serious an offense as copyright infringement, but how do you prove it's true? That's my biggest problem, how can you be sure someone did something just cause they said they did? y

Speaking personally, I believe banning people for that is perfectly justifiable: either they're telling the truth about their actions, in which case you implicitly seem to think a ban is warranted, or they're lying, in which case they're trying to get a rise out of people (not to mention mucking up the site).