What's your opinion of piracy
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The fact is, pirate sites such as ThePirateBay are here to stay and even with more shit such as SOPA, PIPA and ACTA - it wont stop (the piracy).
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WHAT DO you think about PIRACY?
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| Piracy is ok every once in a while | 37.50% (18) | |
| Piracy is kinda bad | 10.42% (5) | |
| Piracy is horrable | 6.25% (3) | |
| Piracy is great! | 45.83% (22) |
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The fact is, pirate sites such as ThePirateBay are here to stay and even with more shit such as SOPA, PIPA and ACTA - it wont stop (the piracy).
Bottom-line: Real men get jobs and afford the shit that the kiddies download for free.
Yates: this picture is kinda true. of course it's something different when you "steal" something digitally because you can make an unlimited amount of copies for free. BUT I already explained that you still cause financial damage like you also do when you steal "real" goods (because you "consume" a product without paying, so the producer gets less money for the same work). that's why I would still say that piracy is pretty much like stealing.I would define theft as: taking (or copying) something which is not yours without permission. (and you get permission to take something which is not yours by paying the price which is declared by the owner)
DC has written@ Yates: this picture is kinda true. of course it's something different when you "steal" something digitally because you can make an unlimited amount of copies for free. BUT I already explained that you still cause financial damage like you also do when you steal "real" goods (because you "consume" a product without paying, so the producer gets less money for the same work). that's why I would still say that piracy is pretty much like stealing.
Yates: this picture is kinda true. of course it's something different when you "steal" something digitally because you can make an unlimited amount of copies for free. BUT I already explained that you still cause financial damage like you also do when you steal "real" goods (because you "consume" a product without paying, so the producer gets less money for the same work). that's why I would still say that piracy is pretty much like stealing.The problem with that picture is that the person probably would have not bought the game if it were not up for pirated download, so there really is minimal loss to the industry ( though indie game dev'ers will take a wallop in a sense that they most probably do not sell as many copies as big titles such as EA and Valve ).
What I sometimes do is when I need a program and the trial doesn't last long enough and I don't have the money to buy it yet is that I get a serial from some site and buy the program/game later.
I do not think that stealing music/movies is alright at all - I get my music out of the radio - with the right radio stations you actually get whole songs for free, after all we do not pay radio stations for nothing, and that way the musicians get payed too unlike they would if I got the songs over YouTube. The same goes for films/TV shows; I just get them over (online)TV, and if I really want a film/song that I can't get over TV/Radio I just buy it - seriously, they're usually not too expensive.
The only type of "piracy" I ever really do is with sheet music - I find it should be more than enough to get the music as mp3/CD.
dENd has writtenPiracy all the way when you got no video game store nearby
http://store.steampowered.com/
Good day, sir.
DannyDeth: actually most games don't have a real "copyright-protection" on it, I've seen it on some pdf files and music though Apache uwu has writtenbut yeah I see how piracy from steam or cloud games would be a more difficult task
It's not, i've reported already like 8 knows of mine that were using a illegal software to crack steam games, of course ill not mention the name.
Mechanolith has written Apache uwu has writtenbut yeah I see how piracy from steam or cloud games would be a more difficult task
It's not, i've reported already like 8 knows of mine that were using a illegal software to crack steam games, of course ill not mention the name.
more difficult compared to ripping cd games
It should also be fine to send the DVD to a friend to let him watch it, over the internet.
To what persons am i allowed to send it ?
You can't show the dvd in a bar, because a bar is an open place and everyone can enter the bar and then watch the movie. So in the internet, you cannot upload a movie and spread the link to everyone. But to who CAN you send the link? I think that's the real problem..
My whole computer is fill'd with games from thepiratebay.
Re: What's your opinion of piracy Mechanolith has written dENd has writtenPiracy all the way when you got no video game store nearby
http://store.steampowered.com/
Good day, sir.
I almost fell out of my chair there! Still though, people find buying things on steam complicated too. Srssly tah..wheres the "plus one" button when you need one. (Spelling intended) Corvallis5 has writteni think it's okay to pirate stuff for like 1 time use, if the demo doesn't get you what you want. like i changed the Stranded II source and i didn't want to buy blitz3d so i pirated it, compiled the source, and uninstalled blitz.
There, that's when piracy is "ok"
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Third time - stop commenting on the plus one button. Corvallis5 has writtenanybody acky use somtin else besides da pirate bay
Nah i uz ze Steam uzwally.