What do you think about piracy?

[Anomalous ⁧ 󠁳 ⁧Anonymous]

just curious

[tom five]

Depends what we're talking about. I think any software piracy is just straight up theft, though I've been guilty of it in the past. When it comes to things like music and movies, IMO, once something has entered the public domain (that is, once it's been played on the radio or on television) then it's fair game. The artist loses nothing.

[Haruspex]

Diposting pertama kali oleh mf tom:

Depends what we're talking about. I think any software piracy is just straight up theft, though I've been guilty of it in the past. When it comes to things like music and movies, IMO, once something has entered the public domain (that is, once it's been played on the radio or on television) then it's fair game. The artist loses nothing.

That's not really what "public domain" means, but I hear ya.

IMO the "legal" arguments for or against piracy are an entirely different discussion from the "moral" arguments for or against piracy. Some people act like what's "legal" is automatically "moral", but that couldn't be farther from the truth.

[TWPanda77]

I think it is theft.

[Sir Seanicus, Esq.]

Operating systems, sure.

[Candyy]

Well, when I cannot afford stuff... 🤷

[craigsters]

It's your conscious, if it doesn't bother you to do crappy thing's by all means, just know your a cheapskate tight arse!..

Buy the real thing and maybe the gaming company well relax there DRM: Denuvo Anti-tamper policy's

[🍋 Lemonfed 🍋]

as long that most peoples buy their games , movies and music , piracy is not a problem as big then what the industry make it out to be.

personally I don't pirate anything that is recent or easy to legaly obtain.

[Hammer Of Evil]

piracy irl? probably the worst thing imaginable. ships have to hire private security now.

[kilésengati]

Piracy is a service issue, always has been.

[Grimmz]

i liked them until they got rid of Ace. after that they just kinda fell off.

[Sidakte]

Diposting pertama kali oleh Wynters:

I hate it and I hate those that do it because it raises our prices trifold.

nope. it's not piracy that raises our prices trifold and quadfold. nope.
it's the corporate greed.

[Mathius]

Games/Software has really changed on this since I first started learning computers.

Back in the 80's and probably into the 90's, it was a lot less frowned upon. It was very very common to walk into a computer show and see guys selling copies of games on disks with their own printed labels on them.

It's hard to argue that piracy drives up the price of games. The publishers want you to believe this, but the question is, how many of these people would have bought the game if they didn't pirate it?

To use a slightly more modern example, Oblivion (released in 2006) had zero copyright protection and sold 9.5 million copies, and won many awards. According to Forbes, the XBox version alone is 9th in sales for the year.

[🍋 Lemonfed 🍋]

even in the early days of computer games you had all sort of weird anti-piracy measures that made the legit games worst then a pirated copy.

want to play Dune ? oh but first you have to open the manual and find in which page this picture is from.

playing street fighter 2 ? oh but first you have to open the manual and tell me what you see is on page 3 , paragraph 2 , line 2 and fourth word.

there where even piracy protection that used special lens that allowed you to read some text on the screen that look garbled if you're not using them , then each game using the system had it's own specific lens that you could only use for the game it's came with.

playing monkey island , oh now you'l have to line up some pirates on a wheel.

anti-piracy should not be worst for the player then piracy itself.

[kilésengati]

Diposting pertama kali oleh 🍋 Lemonfed 🍋:

even in the early days of computer games you had all sort of weird anti-piracy measures that made the legit games worst then a pirated copy.

want to play Dune ? oh but first you have to open the manual and find in which page this picture is from.

playing street fighter 2 ? oh but first you have to open the manual and tell me what you see is on page 3 , paragraph 2 , line 2 and fourth word.

there where even piracy protection that used special lens that allowed you to read some text on the screen that look garbled if you're not using them , then each game using the system had it's own specific lens that you could only use for the game it's came with.

playing monkey island , oh now you'l have to line up some pirates on a wheel.

anti-piracy should not be worst for the player then piracy itself.

Didn't some games also used prisms held against a screen and stuff like that. That was wild indeed, but at least they didn't invade your computer like StarForce did (and Denuvo still does) and still work on modern hardware… well, unless that encryption method specifically requires you to use a decently-enough calibrated CRT.

DRM is terrible, period. But some is worse than others.

[Mr_Blank]

I think that Disney deserves to be pirated and have no money spent on the.but it should be a crime to pirate anything else.