What do you think about piracy?

[Anomalous ⁧ 󠁳 ⁧Anonymous]

just curious

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John Johnson の投稿を引用：

If you pirate a movie or a single song or a game you should be fined 1 million USD and be sent to jail for no longer then 25 years. This is the same as murder because you are taking money away from the people that work hard in making it so you are taking food out of their mouth and their families mouth.

they can make other million of digit copies, they won't get hungry. If you sell pirated content on the commercial purpuse then yes, it should be fined

Pirates of the world, unite!

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It's a free trial before buying a game/product, it's a good thing, it should be "legal" free and all

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There are researches with statistics that show only 4% or so pirate content, and 2-3% of them buy it in the end, the corporations won't lose a penny because of the "piracy".

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All Digit content must be FREE

People Humans should NOT spend MONEY on pixels

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Captain Jack Sparrow is proven innocent, so am I

[InfamousBozo]

I don't care enough about movies or games to go through piracy just to consume.

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InfamousBozo の投稿を引用：

I don't care enough about movies or games to go through piracy just to consume.

Cinemas are paid, which is okay, while Netflix must be free, it's digital thing, which is easily copied pasted, so it's not worth it to buy pixels

[citru]

yarr harr fiddle dee dee do what you want cuz a pirate is free

[Sidakte]

76561198346836306 の投稿を引用：

All Digit content must be FREE

People Humans should NOT spend MONEY on pixels

no im not a poster boy for corpos.
but hang on a sec.
making a game takes work-hours.
one doesn't just melt their mind in front of a screen for sh!ts and giggles.
ok its love for the profession, love for the code etc, the lore etc etc
but its also for paying some bills back home man.
im talking about the game devs, not the corpos they work in. the devs only. as e-laborers.
just because they e-labor and not hard under the sun in the field labor doesn't mean its not labor.

i mean ok piracy may help on an individual level for old game preservation and conservation even through modders, and people have a right wanting to own the .exes of the games they paid for.
but it also results in people losing value of their labor.

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will の投稿を引用：

RRW359 の投稿を引用：

TIL promoting illegal activities is always wrong, no exceptions. Would you agree with someone advocating for using VPN's in China or saying they should be able to say the UK monarchy should be peacefully abolished? Both are illegal, the latter with life imprisonment as the punishment, but I'm sure that because you like to pick and choose which illegal activities you can/can't advocate for the only one I can't promote is something that harms the companies responsable for making it hard to retain your purchases under conditions they disagree with. If a jury wants to publicly have a trial where I'm given 5 years in prison and a 250k fine for downloading games I already bought then let them, and if someone else downloads something for genuinely selfish reasons that's between them and the law.

trying to equate piracy with freedom of speech and political dissent. it's almost as if we're not discussing video games anymore. sweetie, let's not muddle the waters with such lofty comparisons, shall we? see, there's a slight difference between advocating for human rights and wanting to play "Command & Conquer" without paying (again).

it's delightful how you paint a dramatic picture of yourself standing tall against corporate tyranny. but let's keep things in perspective. while it's true that companies can and do overreach, making every consumer issue an epic battle of good vs. evil is a tad... overdramatic.

and just for clarity, i never said all illegal activities are always wrong. but let's not pretend that downloading a video game equates to fighting for freedom of expression in a totalitarian regime. it's always good to have priorities in life, and i'm just pointing out that there might be bigger battles to fight.

Well someone could say that being for freedom expression encourages people to commit the crime of violating the felony treason act, does that mean everyone advocating it should stop? Should I start advocating for restricting freedom of movement between Oregon and Washington because basically everybody who takes advantage of it does it in order to illegally take money from public services? As for wasting energy, how much time why do you care about the companies that restrict access so much you want to keep engaging if it isn't worth it? Games have been piloted for decades and the industry still exists but the issue of if people should be able to keep their purchases is becoming more and more relevant and isn't limited to software.

[Pocahawtness]

Piracy just shows how two-faced and selfish people are.

They go on and on about capitalism being the way, they fight for their rights and their freedoms, yet they steal and deny those very same rights to to the people who create the games.

Me? I steal ships and I have a charter to do so! Oooh Aaar!

[Ganger]

Im indifferent these days. Put it this way, I don't care if people pirate or not. I feel this way not due to denuvo or some other anti-pirate measure but down to lack of ownership of said title. I feel if I purchase a £50 game, I want to be able to play this game without the need to login into 3rd party clients such as steam or even have to log online to play my games.

PS... in the beginning I was all for digital distribution and platforms such as steam. These days I realise we own nothing, not even the physical disc the game came on and we are at the mercy of these big corporations who can take away your access to the games you bought with no reason looking at you Ubisoft...

[min3r95]

An overblown topic.
Great for preservation.

[Bad Aim]

I use to pirate games all the time. But then I found out that there are a lot of games that are developed and made by two guys in a basement, that companies like EA will only distribute said game. That when I am pirating a game, I am taking money away from the original developers. Not only that, EA tracks the games they distribute. EA may or may not decide to hire said developers due to people pirating.

When I came to that realization (through articles put out by a couple of different gaming mags) I dropped pirating games and got my Steam account. I have not pirated games since.

I may not like having to pay for my games, but I do it to support the small developers, even if a big company is distributing the game.

[crunchyfrog]

Pirate☠️Pocah の投稿を引用：

Piracy just shows how two-faced and selfish people are.

They go on and on about capitalism being the way, they fight for their rights and their freedoms, yet they steal and deny those very same rights to to the people who create the games.

Me? I steal ships and I have a charter to do so! Oooh Aaar!

That's a strawman, as you're only tackling ONE basic argument.

If that were the case, sure, that would mean they're selfish.

But it isn't the only point - not even close.

There are myriad other circumstances where piracy has helped keep things alive or restore things.

Again Doctor Who.

If left to the BBC and their pitiful ability to keep hold or track their tapes, nobody would ever have been able to buy DVDs and VHSes of the old Doctor Who episodes.

It's thanks to people who DID record them, pirate them, share them, and erstwhile go out of their way to do bootlegging and grey market deals to keep these thigns alive.

The BBC had a handful of episodes of their own from the 1980s and earlier. Literally the majority of episodes were sourced from people who did piracy and dodgy deals.

Admittedly it's an extreme case, but there are still many many other famous desirable things that have been lost for good.

You should also look up what Universal music lost when they had a fire some years back. Many famous artists' masters have gone.