Pirating a video game isn't ethically any different from walking into a video game outlet, slipping the disc in your pocket and walking out.
This strikes me as a particularly egregious sort of theft, because no one needs video games. If you're hungry and steal food, I'm ok with that. If you're ill and the only way to get the meds you need is to steal them, dandy.
Look at what seems to be the main justification for piracy just in this thread: games are too expensive. Well, so what? Being an 'I can't afford' doesn't give you the right to become an 'I will take'. Not having the wherewithal to be able to buy some else's intellectual property isn't a pass to take it, particularly because games are NOT a necessity. No one has ever died because of a lack of GTA.
Folk seem to think that digital media are somehow fair game for theft (call it what you want, but taking someone else's property is theft, full stop) because you aren't actually taking a physical object. That strikes me as a big, streaming hypocritical mound of horseshit. Films, music, games, and so on are called 'intellectual property' for a reason - they are owned by someone. Whether that someone is an individual or a corporate entity doesn't make a jot of difference. What matters is, it isn't YOURS.
Boru
This strikes me as a particularly egregious sort of theft, because no one needs video games. If you're hungry and steal food, I'm ok with that. If you're ill and the only way to get the meds you need is to steal them, dandy.
Look at what seems to be the main justification for piracy just in this thread: games are too expensive. Well, so what? Being an 'I can't afford' doesn't give you the right to become an 'I will take'. Not having the wherewithal to be able to buy some else's intellectual property isn't a pass to take it, particularly because games are NOT a necessity. No one has ever died because of a lack of GTA.
Folk seem to think that digital media are somehow fair game for theft (call it what you want, but taking someone else's property is theft, full stop) because you aren't actually taking a physical object. That strikes me as a big, streaming hypocritical mound of horseshit. Films, music, games, and so on are called 'intellectual property' for a reason - they are owned by someone. Whether that someone is an individual or a corporate entity doesn't make a jot of difference. What matters is, it isn't YOURS.
Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
