I love all the brainwashed idiots that think piracy is "theft", sure, thats the law, but the law is antiquated, inadequate for the 21st century, and all these companies are making huge profit from inferior quality product while you continue to fall for their trap.
Let me quickly work through some of the big misconceptions in the arguments against piracy
1)People who WORK on the game are paid develpers, they earn a wage for their work just like you and I, its very very rare in todays market for a dev to earn royalty from a game they made, and even then its on top of their salary, so even if not a single copy of the game sells, the people that did WORK on it got paid. The people you are ripping off when you pirate a game is the publisher, a group of fat investors who do nothing but lend their money to a project then reap the rewards, and I shed no tears for these people, they couldnt care less about games, entertainment or YOU, so why should you care about them?
2)The word theft may be catchy and the souless lawyers who brainwashed you into believing you can steal something non physical certainly smile when you are stupid enough to believe it. Copyright exists so that company B doesnt profit form all the work done by company A without sharing said profit, it exists so that IP owners have control over how their IP is used, but it should never extend to the non profit consumer and thats where I draw the line. You can not steal something that doesnt have a physical form.
3) Piracy leads to lower quality games. Totally untrue, some of the biggest companies on earth that have all the money in the world release the worst games ever made, while some indi or small developers make great quality product without the benefit of huge incomes. I believe in supporting what you love, so I vote with my wallet, when I believe a developer is doing a great job and their publishing company isnt including intrusive, needlessly complex protection on their media, I buy the game, I cant say I have personally pirated any games because most arent worth the HD space they take and those that are I have paid for.
4)If you dont want to pay for it you shouldnt play it. Well come on now, you never lent a game to a friend? never borrowed a music CD? photocopied a textbook?
Bittorrent and other systems like it are big sharing networks, they are the equivalent of a very large group of friends exchanging things, if you like it so much, youd buy it, buy its sequels, purchase merchandize and support work from the same developers in the future. If its crap like 99.9% of the games released now days, why should you pay full price for the privilege of finding out?
5) DRM, SecuROM, etc are needed for the publishers to protect their IP because of ruthless pirates. It takes a pirate 30 seconds to crack any kind of security known to men, they exist to prevent the unexperienced user from easly copying the game from a friend, to appeal to the fears of those who believe downloading a crack for their game is a one way road to malware street. We are a sucker generation, the man can stick it to us all day and we say thank you sir may I have another? people willingly accept companies, governments and anyone in authority getting away with things our parents would not have let slide without an uprising.
6)When you copy something you are stealing someones "work". Let me tell you something, when you do a job you get paid for it, you dont continue to get paid for it after the fact forever and then 100 years after your death. How would this logic translate if applied to anything else?
Lets see, say im a doctor and I save your life, now am I entiled to charge you a fee for the rest of your life since you are living as a product of my labour?
Say im a furniture maker and I make you a chair, must you pay a fee every time you sit on it?
Artists need to be paid for their work, once, if they want more money they should sell merchandize, tour and do concerts, get paid for live screenings/performances.
Support the companies you love, buy product from the developers that are doing a good job, donate to the indi developers who make worthwhile product, the rest, pirate it.
You should never support a company that isnt giving you what you the quality you demand, vote with your wallet and dont let anyone bully you into believing you are a thief for downloading data you wont profit from.
There are real thieves out there, people who copy DVDs and sell them for profit, those are the bad guys, the one ripping off the consumer for profit, not the joe gamer who doesnt want to pay $100 for the latest game with maybe 7 hours of gameplay before they delete it.
