[citation][nom]aftcomet[/nom]A price increase is not justification to steal. So when one day gas prices are too much for some people to afford, they should steal it. Your reasoning is ridiculous. If you don't like their pricing, don't buy it. Apple has zero obligation to you. That's the free market economy. Don't like it? Move. Monopolistic practices are a different matter, I'm talking about piracy.I know if I was a game developer, music artist, software engineer, and I put in a lot of hours doing work, I wouldn't want some asshole getting it for free. It's my work. I especially hate it when someone says they already make enough. What's enough? Why should you dictate how much someone makes? If you don't want to contribute to their wealth, DON'T BUY IT.This a big reason why PC is getting jipped when it comes to games. Everyone thinks it's going to get pirated. So games end up being delayed or not released at all. PC has become the least priority for developers because of idiots who don't support products they want.That's my anti-piracy rant.[/citation]
you know what, if i make a movie, a tv show, music, basicly ANYTHING i would give it for free, you know why... I would find a way to MAKE money off the product, and make it either make more financial sense to be free, or good enough to keep putting out free content.
if i made a book, my first things would be to but 1/4 the top of the page be an ad for something, and charge them for permanent ad placement, or if amazon allowed, every 2nd or 3rd page would be an ad, that you cant skip for 4-5 seconds... you got it for free so dont complain, you want to get a better version, buy a physical coppy.
pirates dont like the cost, the company behind a product, ect
people who complain about pirates dont see that
and companies who blame pirates have to be dragged kicking and screaming into the future EVERY DAMN TIME something new comes out.
companies have said that home video would kill movies,
companies claimed that cassets recording radio would end music.
one company at the very least (i believe universal) said that every time you see a movie or hear a song, you have to pay for it.
piracy isnt stealing, people complaining dont get the issues, and companys nickel and dime you for everything you had, and would piece out a game FAR worse than they do now if they didnt think people would revolt against them.
[citation][nom]tramit[/nom]Deep down inside. Most people who pirate were going to pirate anyways even if the price was much lower. Nothing beats "free" to them. No need justify theft to appease your own morals.[/citation]
steam... nuff said.
some people will pirate for no reason other than a cheap thrill, but most will pay if they wanted the product in the first place.
[citation][nom]tului[/nom]And we should justify collusion by billionaires to fleece the populace even more? This isn't an ipad luxury device we're talking about. Books are something everyone deserves, for free as a public service. Sure private ownership should have a cost, as it has a cost associated with the publishing. Even a few dollars for an ebook would be fine to cover marketing and editing salaries. If the price doubles the cost, the government SHOULD step in and beat these companies down. THAT is real theft.[/citation]
complain to Sonny Bono for the current coppyright system, where nothing that was made when i was born will hit public domain in my lifetime, and with corporations viewed as people, may NEVER reach public domain again.
coppyright should be 25 years to make whatever profit you want on whatever you make, and than its released into public domain, for corporations, for individuals, life + 25 mainly due to how corporations have a tenancy to try and kill off anything that may be sucessfull if they refuse to join.
[citation][nom]idono[/nom]No it's not justified to pirate if it's to expensive. But you'r example of games is completly wrong to what's actually happening. People pirate PC games because large chunks of PC games follows the rotten port example. With no demos to give the user a try befor buying it, forces people to try it in some other matter. 90% of ports coming to the PC are utter crap and thus pirated by people that have experience of being shafter by publishers like EA and Activision. I happly pirate games that aren't providing Demos because i don't have blind faith in multiplatform game. The past 4 year's i've been regreting 90% of my purchases in games cause they are buggy, have poor performance, poorly ported (aka. bad controlls, ui and so on.) and because they developers keep overhyping the PC version. Frankly i've stoped purchasing games in blind faith from respectable developers because they are published or owned by the 3 biggest publishers.The big reason PC is being "jipper" is because bigass companys like EA and Activision refuse to change their practices and make games for gamers instead of making games that fits their greedy little pockets. EA is by far the worse though since they have never really delivered what their marketing says and god damnit their games are buggier than Ghotic 3 was when it got released.[/citation]
lets also not forget their greed also got them kicked off of steam. and lets also point out that demos are usually not updated and the full game will usually be patched up or could cause other problems, this happened back when i was using win 98, i cant remember a recent one that was like that though.
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