Piracy

[AndyFromMonday]

Of course piracy doesn't affect the industry since a lot of pirates usually can't afford games anyways. The idea that corporations are just poor suckers losing millions due to people pirating their games is bullshit. Corporations don't give a fuck about piracy, they're just using it as an excuse to limit our rights as consumers and they've been quite successful at that. What other industry has the ability to sell unfinished products at full price to willing and grateful customers?

Get it in your heads people, corporations don't give a flying fuck about potential sales. They do, however, give a fuck about milking their customers and are using the "potential sales" argument as a way to justify their actions in the eyes of the public. They're just playing the system. Right now laws are being passed that attempt to destroy our concept of privacy and limit our rights as consumers, all in the interest of "saving" the copyright-based industry of course, and people are defending them.

 

[Rude as HECK]

I think you are forgetting that their are no natural or human rights. The only rights you have are those that the country you live in allows you to have.

Oh man, it's like I walked into a freshman's first legal theory lecture.

I don't think there' a legal academic alive that would accept that statement. Radical legal positivism, as well as cultural relativism, has long since fallen out of fashion, for good reason.

Fact - If ONE person pirates a copy who would have otherwise bought the product had pirated versions not been available then the industry loses money

If you are defining a person who pirate as one who would otherwise spend money on a product- I assume you mean through "legitimate" means, but you don't say that- then of course it makes sense.

But such a definition, in reality, is bunkum. You may as well say piracy is bad because piracy is bad. The conclusion is already placed into the statement- it's tautological.

 

[Mik0ri]

Oh no, people are playing our games without giving us money, our first course of action to combat this is obviously 'turn the internet into a George Orwell novel'!

 

[Dexomega]

I love how everyone tries to defend their own acts of piracy. If you're such an entitled brat that you think you deserve something you didn't pay for or earn, I can't imagine how you would react to owning a business and having people steal from you.

Hello, I have three words for you, "The Pirate Code".

That said, no one here is 'defending' their pirating habits because no one here has even admitted to it. If I made a game and released it, I'd charge for it, obviously. What's different is that I wouldn't go around suing massive swaths of people and sticking godforsaken DRM on everything that moves. It's like a slow-motion train wreck that never stops.