Poll: Pirating
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this, except I still do it.Furburt said:
I needed a new copy of Gorillaz (mine was destroyed after being stored under a spare tire for a few months... don't ask) and didn't want to wait.
Guhh, if I can't find a game ANYWHERE (I import so that even covers getting japan exclusives) or it is unavailable to me I have a tendency to download it but I have a rule for it, only if it is discontinued and at least 5 years old.
Wait, so there is such a thing as legal pirating? But seriously, I only pirate the things that online retailers apparently don't want to sell to me or they would have had digital copies listed for a reasonable price - there's no way in hell I'm paying $50 for an imported album when other albums by the same damn artist are available digitally for $8 from the same website.
I don't feel bad at all about the handful of albums I've pirated, because I've purchased 83 albums in less than a year, and I would have happily bought the rest.
Now games or movies, there I've never pirated anything, though I've had to break copy protection or use CD keys I found online to get a few of the games I purchased at retail to work properly. Which is bloody ironic.
I don't feel bad at all about the handful of albums I've pirated, because I've purchased 83 albums in less than a year, and I would have happily bought the rest.
Now games or movies, there I've never pirated anything, though I've had to break copy protection or use CD keys I found online to get a few of the games I purchased at retail to work properly. Which is bloody ironic.
Pirating is illegal, full stop. Stop trying to make excuses because their aren't any. Products which are unlicensed or on an old license and no longer produced can be slightly excused...
But an overpriced game or a company that has wronged you? No, what you are doing is wrong and illegal, if you can't come to terms with the fact that what you are doing is completely wrong don't pirate, the end. The industry is by large part being destroyed by people with an incredible ability to justify these things to themselves.
Somehow people even seem to act as if it is their right to pirate video games. It isn't.
Me personally? Video games, movies, music. I'm a bastard but I'm not going to hide behind any lie or pretend what I'm doing is right. I know it's wrong and against the law, but so is the speed I do in my car down the freeway and I'm not going to pretend I have a right to speed, nor did I have a right to drink alcohol underage. Yes I break the law and I'm not going to sugar coat it and neither should anybody else, if they can't deal with the reality of it they shouldn't do it and the world will benefit.
But an overpriced game or a company that has wronged you? No, what you are doing is wrong and illegal, if you can't come to terms with the fact that what you are doing is completely wrong don't pirate, the end. The industry is by large part being destroyed by people with an incredible ability to justify these things to themselves.
Somehow people even seem to act as if it is their right to pirate video games. It isn't.
Me personally? Video games, movies, music. I'm a bastard but I'm not going to hide behind any lie or pretend what I'm doing is right. I know it's wrong and against the law, but so is the speed I do in my car down the freeway and I'm not going to pretend I have a right to speed, nor did I have a right to drink alcohol underage. Yes I break the law and I'm not going to sugar coat it and neither should anybody else, if they can't deal with the reality of it they shouldn't do it and the world will benefit.
I did at one stage. I never pirated games but music was my general target, any software I needed for a course was usually given out at school/college so there was no need there. I now just buy most of my music, but only after listening to it on Youtube, films I only watch on TV or at the cinema as it is (Woo Sky films).
I typically do it for games that are no longer available, cost obscene amounts of money, or that are not released yet (through the right sites you can get new games early.) If I like the game, I buy it. As it stands, I haven't had much to buy lately with all the copy-paste games out lately.
I pirate a lot of stuff, but I buy a lot too.
In the end, in my mind it goes as this: I could spend 150 bucks a month on entertainment, and pirate an additional 150, or I could spend 150 bucks and pirate nothing.
In the end, the record labels, movie studios, game companies would get the same, except I would only get half the entertainment, and wouldn't ever experience the other 50%. Do I have the right to experience those 50% I haven't paid for? Probably not, but if I didn't, I would never spend any money on future stuff from the same directors/musicians/editors.
That means that if I hadn't pirated that Half-Life game when it came out, I would never have bought the second one, and would probably have spent that money on another game by a company that has 500% more funds for advertising.
That means be locked in endless franchises like Call of Duty, Mario, Zelda, and Super Hero movies, because they are more of a "sure thing", and never spend any money on more obscure, but greater things.
This is even more accentuated in music, where you would probably only know the bands that play at local radio stations or that are very popular on media and youtube, and never discover more experimental and unknown stuff, like one of my favorite bands, Genghis Tron.
In the end, in my mind it goes as this: I could spend 150 bucks a month on entertainment, and pirate an additional 150, or I could spend 150 bucks and pirate nothing.
In the end, the record labels, movie studios, game companies would get the same, except I would only get half the entertainment, and wouldn't ever experience the other 50%. Do I have the right to experience those 50% I haven't paid for? Probably not, but if I didn't, I would never spend any money on future stuff from the same directors/musicians/editors.
That means that if I hadn't pirated that Half-Life game when it came out, I would never have bought the second one, and would probably have spent that money on another game by a company that has 500% more funds for advertising.
That means be locked in endless franchises like Call of Duty, Mario, Zelda, and Super Hero movies, because they are more of a "sure thing", and never spend any money on more obscure, but greater things.
This is even more accentuated in music, where you would probably only know the bands that play at local radio stations or that are very popular on media and youtube, and never discover more experimental and unknown stuff, like one of my favorite bands, Genghis Tron.