Because I view piracy as a great thing. They're doing our work for us. They're letting us know what they want, and how they want it. They're doing proof-of-concept of delivery methods. Smart companies and smart people will exploit this, not fear it. Even simple things like the Blizzard patcher using bit-torrent to get…
This is a surprisingly common view... and 99% false. When I was in high school I knew a couple people who were deep into the pirating scene, guys that ran the backbone FTP servers the cracking groups used. Terrabyte servers run by normal dudes back in 2001, plugged directly into the fiber lines that serve comcast and…
Which actually, I saw something a couple of weeks ago about one of the publishers trying to stop EBGames from selling used copies, using exactly that kind of backwards logic that I'm against. That when people buy a used copy, EBGames makes a profit, and yet not EA. The irony with piracy is that the pirates have went out of…
I seem to be getting the impression that its a popular thought that theres a big correlation between studios not selling games and people pirating them. I would disagree, that piracy is entirely (or significantly) to blame/the cause. Rather I would suggest that piracy is the symptom of a much bigger problem. And that is…
it's not about affording (well maybe here in China it is), it's about greed. Then again everyone does it and nobody speaks about it. There's many people out there who don't pay for every program they use (at home) - just hear around your colleagues - was the Maya version really bought, which they used for their reel?. I've…
If I'm reading BigJohn's posts right, he's saying that piracy is not necessarily a crime due to the fact that the harm caused by it is only hypothetical, and that it actually increases the exposure of the product in question, and that any moral questions are moot as per his perspective on property rights. Now this may seem…
I'm guilty of piracy, I used to pirate games day one. Often the excuse would be "I already own it on console so why is it wrong that I have it on PC too, I already paid for it?" or "I'm just testing to see if the game is worth buying yet." Currently making up for it by actually buying games and throwing money at all those…
Think of it from a consumer standpoint, as consumers we basically have zero rights. I have bought many PC games that were terrible ports and did not function or work Ive still got a few games that i cannot play due to bugs and lack of support from developers. You cannot return any game you can only exchange for the same…
time to make some lemonade?! Piracy is just getting bigger, bigger, and bigger. Yes, its a crime. But saddley, if everyone is punished to the fullest extent of the law - the majority of people living in north america would be in jail, or homeless from the fines (or whatever the punishment is.) Piracy is always going to be…
He has a point. I think this discussion is getting twisted around a bit due to a few unclear arguments. Recap? Recap. Pirating isn't 'good' but it's hard to define just what sort of bad we should call it. Theft? Piracy? Intellectual Counterfeiting? None of them really fit. It's a vague crime, in that the initial harm is…