Need some piracy advice....

[Aeonknight]

I am just upset that people think I enjoy the thought, I really don't but I did'nt think the reaction would be so... Nasty, I used to think the Escapist was a place were fellow posters would understand your point of view. I guess not, thanks for the feedback anyway.

The escapist is fairly well populated by pirates that don't like people making them feel bad about what they do, how was the reaction not expected? Also, your not being an ass he is, report him.

Oh what a silly person you are, didnt you know that being a preemptive nautical salvage expert is against the rules on the escapist? Nope, no pirates here, just law abiding citizens who dont even watch youtube cause it is full of copyrighted material being infringed upon!

Implying that streaming and downloading are the same thing. Nice strawman arguement.

 

[Rainforce]

Sure isn't nice of him, but...

I really think I need to make an example of him

You shouldn't have THIS kind of thoughts in the first place.
I actually think that you can do better than playing the moral guardian for a game you like.
I do like Skyrim as well, but would I really screw someone over because he pirated A GAME?
like all the million people before him? piracy is (by far) not ok,
but you sound like the kind of person that would beat someone up because they looked at you funny.

 

[Rainforce]

Just saw this exchange.

If you think that the choice of whether you should report your friend to authorities for some shit like this is a "difficult situation" you don't know what loyalty is. This is no longer a matter of what you seem to be like. That just confirmed it.

screw loyalty, sounds more like he doesn't know what a "difficult situation" is.
on the loyalty part: we come to the same conclusion, as I wouldn't like to be around for the aftermath once I screwed over the people I spend a lot of time with. just doesn't work out.

and why not Amnesia.

DON'T YOU DARE D:<

 

[Sansha]

Honestly, damn your friend. Report him, and if he gets questioned or fined for it, flatly reply "Perhaps you'll reconsider next time you decide to steal a game."

'I don't want to pay for it' - that's just insanity. I don't know how anyone with a properly adjusted personality and lack of head trauma can honestly idealize that as a legitimate excuse. I didn't want to have to pay for my apartment, car or food this week but that doesn't mean "Oh, well, by all means, go steal it sir."
I'm not going walk past the ticket counter in a movie theater, and when stopped reply "Oh, I didn't want to pay for it. I wasn't going to anyway, so you didn't lose a sale.", and be let in on those grounds.

I've always been impassioned about this subject. I can't stand people who pirate games, movies or music and don't even have the balls to admit, even to themselves, that they've stolen something.
Unless, of course, your conscience is niggling at the back of your head and you only did it because you're too afraid of real-world consequences rather than, y'know, morality and goodness.

So report your friend. I would.

 

[Tanakh]

There is no "your" definition of stealing. The only definition that matters is the legal one, which copyright infringement does not fit into and there is ample case law to back it up.

Which country are you talking about? Which years? In what jurisdiction and under what law (martial, civil, canonic)? "the legal one" as if there is only one, lolz, anyway we are using non legal speech english in this forums, it is at least reasonable to assume he is using "steal" in a casual way.

If you are talking legal, i don't think there is a definition of "steal", AFAIK the crime is called larceny; however according to wikipedia "anti-theft-of-government-property law 18 U.S.C. § 640 is used to prosecute cases where the Espionage Act would otherwise be involved" which seems to suggest that actually taking a phisical object is not a requisite for an act of theft.

 

[Sansha]

Honestly, damn your friend. Report him, and if he gets questioned or fined for it, flatly reply "Perhaps you'll reconsider next time you decide to steal a game."

'I don't want to pay for it' - that's just insanity. I don't know how anyone with a properly adjusted personality and lack of head trauma can honestly idealize that as a legitimate excuse. I didn't want to have to pay for my apartment, car or food this week but that doesn't mean "Oh, well, by all means, go steal it sir."
I'm not going walk past the ticket counter in a movie theater, and when stopped reply "Oh, I didn't want to pay for it. I wasn't going to anyway, so you didn't lose a sale.", and be let in on those grounds.

I've always been impassioned about this subject. I can't stand people who pirate games, movies or music and don't even have the balls to admit, even to themselves, that they've stolen something.
Unless, of course, your conscience is niggling at the back of your head and you only did it because you're too afraid of real-world consequences rather than, y'know, morality and goodness.

So report your friend. I would.

Sounds like you're not just a really shitty friend but you also don't know the difference between stealing and copyright infringement. Good job.

I'm fully aware of the difference, but I still call it stealing, by definition of using a roundabout method to get something for free that you should be paying for. You wouldn't happen to be one of those people who's just afraid to admit it, would you?

Also me being a shitty friend is a moot topic; I don't make friends with freeloaders, swindlers and, again, people who can't admit their own moral shortcomings.

I absolutely hate people who steal games. Even I have trouble comprehending how much.

 

[MercurySteam]

One of my friends pirated Skyrim recently......Anyway I need some advice, is their any system that I can report this to secretly? Cause I really think I need to make an example of him

Wow, some friend you are.

Now I don't enjoy making judgements of people but that's just cold. I know plenty of my friends pirate games but it's never really affected me before. Sure they pirate games I like, but it's not enough to get me to rat them out like that. My love for a videogame has never, and probably never will push me to betray the trust of another human being.

It's your call, but if you ride this train you may not like what happens at the end.