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I'd rather keep my money, as opposed to sending it to someone who's already obscenely rich.
Thanks anyway for the offer of paying money for something that I can already get for free.

There's nothing wrong with it, it's like stealing a few beers from tesco.
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Agreed. But it seemed kind of silly that people would get upset about anti-piracy measures. I mean, where do they get off trying to protect their product? It's our inalienable right to steal it!
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Originally Posted by SmileyJones View Post
It's our inalienable right to steal it!

And the government has the right to throw you in prison for stealing it!

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People acting like it's a right to be able to pirate and get mad at anti-pirating laws are fucking morons who should be shot in the face. "LOL WAI SHULDZ I PAII DEY MAEK DESE GAMEZ AND I WANTZ PLAYZ BUT NO PAYZ SO Y SHOUD I?? EXATLY."

Personally, I don't think it's wrong to pirate in moderation- so long as your computer isn't filled to the brim with hundreds of dollars of stolen software, and you aren't spreading it around to all your friends ("GRAET A++ 60$ GAEM MAEK SUER EVERYONZ PIRATZ KK?"), it's not much of a big deal compared to the 'big boys' of pirating who run around pirating anything they can without bogging down their computer with viruses and spyware. It's like stealing candy bar in a convenience store while hordes of robbers swarm in and take everything else.
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Originally Posted by CMon View Post
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One commonly used pro-piracy argument is the "downloading it is not affecting their income". Well hellooooooo, did you get an F- in maths on junior high or something? Of course it's affecting their income. The more people downloading, the lesser the income gets. Luckily, you also have (stupid) people that don't know about the wonders of the intertubes, as well as those who actually have the gallancy to support the creators, so most big-name publishers and artists still get a largely satisfactory amount of income. But still, stealing from Bill Gates isn't cool, even though it might be cooler than stealing from some random homeless guy.

If you are not going to, would never, etc, purchase the album/game/movie/piece of art, then the artist loses nothing if you pirate it. In fact, they actual gain free publicity and face time because if it's a good piece of art you will probably show it to a friend.

Originally Posted by Dalir View Post
Difference, wapthuos, is that he is an Alpha Team member and you only manage to drag your sorry ass around to troll or make crappy threads.

I resent that. My thread started virtually the same way.
"You didn't hurt me nothing can hurt me / nothing can hurt me nothing can stop me now"
Lol, i'm trolling all you bawww-ing anti-piracy types just by torrenting stuff? That is just too wonderful.

I'm a cheapskate with my media stuff. I don't feel that paying £10 for a DVD or £30 odd for a videogame is worth it. I buy stuff that i really want, like my favorite albums etc., but usually only if they're on the market or reduced in the shop. Why? Because i don't have unlimited cash to throw at Universal or Warner Media Group, for all the films i want to see. I totally support live music, going to the cinema and all that, though, and i'd happily pay damaging amounts of money for that.
When i found out my ticket to see Muse was gonna set me back £80, and realised i'd probs get drunk and shell out £20 for the t-shirt (actual value around £4), i didn't feel that they needed another £10 of my cash when the album came out.

I care about the welfare of people working in the software, music, and film industries, but i care more about my own welfare, and i'm kind of disgusted at them asking for £10 for a cd, hardly any of which is gonna go to the artists and their techs.
i gotta say, harl is right................
but, here, i cant find any good game in stores, only sims 2 , wich in my opinion sucks...
since i cant find any piece of software in the store that i need/want
i use torrentz
i cant say piracy is right.
i wish i had enough money to buy all the games in the store
i would like having big stacks of game and film boxes, it just feels great.
everyone thinks that because they steal from a billion dollar corporation its okay. well guess what, if the billion dollar corporation doesn't make a billion dollars then it needs to lay off a few hundred staff, then they lose all their money cos they got no one working and they close down and you get no more movies/games/music. DON'T PIRATE...says the man with a pirate avatar.
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Originally Posted by H4rl3quin View Post
Lol, i'm trolling all you bawww-ing anti-piracy types just by torrenting stuff? That is just too wonderful.

I'm a cheapskate with my media stuff. I don't feel that paying £10 for a DVD or £30 odd for a videogame is worth it. I buy stuff that i really want, like my favorite albums etc., but usually only if they're on the market or reduced in the shop. Why? Because i don't have unlimited cash to throw at Universal or Warner Media Group, for all the films i want to see. I totally support live music, going to the cinema and all that, though, and i'd happily pay damaging amounts of money for that.
When i found out my ticket to see Muse was gonna set me back £80, and realised i'd probs get drunk and shell out £20 for the t-shirt (actual value around £4), i didn't feel that they needed another £10 of my cash when the album came out.

I care about the welfare of people working in the software, music, and film industries, but i care more about my own welfare, and i'm kind of disgusted at them asking for £10 for a cd, hardly any of which is gonna go to the artists and their techs.

I dislike those who pirate, and how they bitch about game dev's being evil and immoral so they think it's okey too steal from them.
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Nah, i don't moralise about it being ok or not. They're out to make their money, and i'm out to save mine.

You know, without piracy i'd have a much narrower musical horizon too. All the things i never would have been able to afford to buy "in case i liked it" etc. Oh and not to mention films.. all those films i wouldn't have seen if i had to pay for every film.

Feel free to go splash out huge amounts of money on videogames, movies, and music if you want.

everyone thinks that because they steal from a billion dollar corporation its okay. well guess what, if the billion dollar corporation doesn't make a billion dollars then it needs to lay off a few hundred staff, then they lose all their money cos they got no one working and they close down and you get no more movies/games/music. DON'T PIRATE...says the man with a pirate avatar.

..and that's just naive. Piracy has been around for ages, and we still get all those things.