[INTERESTING ARTICLE; See Page 8] Discussion: Thoughts on Piracy

[darkely]

I buy some games and pirate others - games that I love like Mirrors Edge, The Ball, Penumbra (all), and Amnesia (which I pirated first but bought it later on) I happily bought.

YC: you say that those who pirate are bound to fail? no I don't believe that at all. My cousin for instance he buys some software however he rents DVD's from Redbox and rips a copy of it (hes got at least 500 DVD's worth of them) and he pirates some Xbox 360 games (again he has a huge album of them). Though he still buys a lot of his games but how does any of this make him bound to fail?!

He is married, is a lawyer in Virgina, owns his own home which he is working on currently and is a soon to be father. What part of that says "failure" to you?

As for the legal portion you mentioned the worst I've heard is getting an e-mail or a strongly worded letter. Ya a letter with bold print that'll stop em'!!!

Anyway I am sorry if others disagree but at the end of the day I am not going to cry myself to sleep for pirating some video game that was made %70 in part with the software, %25 Publisher, and %5 Maker. I know someone is going to get ticked off with my little percentages however I think that the software does A LOT of the work for the maker in the first place - if anything the maker of the software (that was used to make the game) should be the one getting most of the praise.