Pirating just cannot be stopped, Never!

When it comes down to it I cant see there being too many people here who;ve never commited an act of piracy, even unintentionally buy taking possession of something given to them for free by a friend or obtained unknowningly.

But anyway piracy is a fact of life the only thing you can do is decide how you personally react to it. If your friends created a musical arrangment or an entire CD of original music just to see it being sold but a bootlegger a week later then maybe they;d reconcider their practices but untill something like that happens they'll never see anything wrong with it and no amount of indignation will change it.

People who make the claim that Roms are okay for some random reason they heard once and think they;re abiding by are doing so because they want there to be a legal loophole for something they feel should rightfully be availible to them in some form. You can tell them they;re wrong but they;ll just look for another way to justify it or agree with you half heartedly and make a mental note not to tell you about the next bit of free swag they happen across.

I've said it before, People want the lowest price on things as far as their morals will allow. Some people's just let them go a lot lower than others.
 
[quote name='ElwoodCuse'][quote name='eldad9']However, if you pride yourself on never breaking the law, I hope you only own region 1 DVDs.[/quote]

Region codes aren't law, they are just industry standards. They can make it inconvenient for you to play games or watch DVDs from another region, but they can't arrest/sue you for it.[/quote]

Thanks to the wonderful Digital Millennium Copyright Act, circumventing technologies that control access to copyrighted material (such as region coding) is illegal.
 
[quote name='eldad9'][quote name='ElwoodCuse'][quote name='eldad9']However, if you pride yourself on never breaking the law, I hope you only own region 1 DVDs.[/quote]

Region codes aren't law, they are just industry standards. They can make it inconvenient for you to play games or watch DVDs from another region, but they can't arrest/sue you for it.[/quote]

Thanks to the wonderful Digital Millennium Copyright Act, circumventing technologies that control access to copyrighted material (such as region coding) is illegal.[/quote]

gg Corporate AmeriKKKa

I guess I'd better throw out all my black sharpies too, they can be used to bypass copyright protection. Oh, and all my computers have shift keys, I'm REALLY boned.
 
[quote name='ElwoodCuse'][quote name='eldad9'][quote name='ElwoodCuse'][quote name='eldad9']However, if you pride yourself on never breaking the law, I hope you only own region 1 DVDs.[/quote]

Region codes aren't law, they are just industry standards. They can make it inconvenient for you to play games or watch DVDs from another region, but they can't arrest/sue you for it.[/quote]

Thanks to the wonderful Digital Millennium Copyright Act, circumventing technologies that control access to copyrighted material (such as region coding) is illegal.[/quote]

gg Corporate AmeriKKKa

I guess I'd better throw out all my black sharpies too, they can be used to bypass copyright protection. Oh, and all my computers have shift keys, I'm REALLY boned.[/quote]

While not nazi's being mentioned, I think this statement is close enough to the invocation of Nazi's or Hitler that I could submit a claim that this thread now cease due to something structurally similar to Goodwin's Law of Usenet. (Basically because now that an invocation of the KKK has been made to compare something that has nothing to do with the KKK)

Having reached this threshold, this thread seems to have lost any and/or all value, and futher posts would most likely be fruitless.
 
Is pirating really that big? I would think the pre-owned game market has put a bigger dent in the gaming industry. I know one person that downloads games, but I know a ton of people that buy pre-owned .
 
I like my SNES roms; they hold me over until I can afford to buy the damned game. I've beaten Chrono Trigger on a Rom and gotten all 12 endings, but as soon as I find it for a reasonable price, I'm going to pick it up. I just bought Super Ghouls and Ghosts and Illusion of Gaia at a Dirt Market for about 7 bucks about two days ago, and I already beat them on an Emulator. emulators are absolutely NO substitute for the real thing. I used to think otherwise, but the revelation hit me one day when I was trying to play contra with a PC gamepad:
"Holy shit, this is lame" what did I do? I bought an NES and contra. Now, I do know people who do nothing but Pirate games and I laugh at them.
"Look at this man, I got Far Cry.....yeah, it's the German version so I can't understand it but it's FREE. Don't you get it?!"
 
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