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Gota wrote:@Forb
Try googling what you need plus the words Rapidshare or Megaupload.

Obviously you don't know what's going on :p

And that's no proof at all.

One of the moral justification tell myself when using pirated software-> so many people have been prosecuted and charged for "potential" financial loss. I.E. some random mom gets a fine for 30 bucks per song his son has downloaded, even if he and/or she hasn't listened to the music or doesn't like the music. Way i see it, the software/music/whatever industry has overcharged and made examples of random people and made them out to be hardcore organized crime thieves they deserve to get the short stick whenever possible.

Pretty much everyone i know downloads music first and then buys it when they really like it. Same goes for games. If it looks good and you want good multiplayer you pay the small fee. The way it is being enforced is as if you were forced to buy a pig in a bag (its an old estonian saying).

New business models all the way. Making examples out of people who downloaded a few songs or games when they probably had no real plans to buy before trying out is a no-go.

I'm not in the condition to write a long detailed argument but probably most can already figure out what i mean.

Gertkane wrote:Pretty much everyone i know downloads music first and then buys it when they really like it.

Please forward names and addresses immediately. They will be made example of.

Sincerely,
Your friends at the RIAA

I really think that "try before you buy, by any means necessary" is only sensible really.

I'm going to pirate a game before I buy it: fact. That is, unless a proper demo is available, AND I enjoy it immensely, AND it gets good reviews.

Would never have bought these games if not for piracy:
-Total Annihilation (first played it as a copy)
-Freespace 1,2
-Rollercoaster Tycoon
-The Sims
-Sins of a Solar Empire
-Space Rangers 1,2,Reboot
-Galciv 1,2, and all expansions
-Supreme Commander, and expansion
-Evil Genius *nudge nudge*
-Deus Ex
-Bioshock
-Every Commander Keen game
-Half-Life (and all expansions, sequels)
-X-Com and sequel
-Civ 3+4 and all expansions
-Knight of the Old Republic
-Dark Forces, Jedi Knight, MOTS, JK2
-Fallout 1,2
-Geometry Wars

...I'm remembering these just off the top of my head.

In other words, every game I've bought in the last 5 years or so was first pirated. I also saved quite a lot of money because of all the games I would have bought that I was able to discover were garbage.

Were it not for the wide availability of these games via illegal channels, I would simply not have bought many of the above games. I would have probably bought fewer games total and of the games I did buy, a much smaller percentage would have been purchases I didn't regret.

I just haven't got the time and money to buy every game that I *might* enjoy. It doesn't work that way, not for me anyway. In the last 5 years or more, I've only bought ONE game without playing it first, which was World of Goo. I bought it after seeing it get a high score on metacritic and liking what I read in the WiiWare game description. Plus, it was like $15 or something. I've bought this game FOUR TIMES - once for my Wii, then for my PC, then for my nephew's Wii, then for my brother-in-law's PC, and it's worth every penny.

I've also got two 4-foot-long shelves FULL of anime DVDs as well as the complete Death Note and Monster manga series. Figure out how many I would've bought if not for piracy.

I also wouldn't have bought the uber computer and all the upgrades I've made to it, both past and present, were it not for the easy availability of games that require an uber rig.

In other words, piracy has cost me tremendously, both monetarily and socially, because I'm piss-broke from buying anime and computer games and socially inept from no longer having any use for my fellow meatbags. Someone has to get this disaster under control before all the entire western world turns into fat, socially irresponsible slobs. It may already be too late.