An addendum, I would be more likely to shell out for a product if that license included any future versions of that product. Also said, if I bought a product when it was new and they release a newer version, it feels less morally reprehensable to pirate the newer copy.

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If you are the first of your “group of contacts/friends” to get your hands on a latest release game, just because someone told you it was cool ( and you wouldn’t have bought it anyway. ) You may end up telling your friends how cool it is.

If you didn’t intend on buying it in the first place, you may have never found out how ‘cool’ it was, and therefore that’s you not telling anyone else, and potentially lost sales for the company.

This in no way justifies the act of Piracy, however, it just points out the industries aren’t going into decline because of piracy, it’s rather a natural equilibrium.

If you’re going to annoy consumers with high-tech anti-piracy technologies ( which never work ) at least put the price down on the game to compensate. ( which contradicts the fact that the technology costs the company more. )

There’s a point where you look at a price, and you say well I could get 5 other not-so-hyped-up games for the same price, and simply being so expensive drives you to pirate it.

Games should start out cheaper, and reduce in price less. ( So the game doesn’t just sell when it becomes cheap. )

Undoubtedly. Only filesharing isn’t theft because the author still has the original of whatever is being distributed via FS.

Try and sue me for somehow making an identical copy of your Ferrari (while you still have your car and I’ve never even touched it). I wish you luck. :-)

What’s your point? That people should obey a law no matter how silly it is, and no matter how victimless an instance of breaking that law is?

You’re a pitiful stooge.

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Theft is theft no matter how you put a spin on it.[/quote]

Correct. Theft is theft no matter how you spin it, so why don’t you fuck off and take your spin with you?

If I snap my fingers and instantly conjur up a 1:1 duplicate of your Ferrari, and then drive off in said duplicate, you’re going to have one Hell of a time trying to figure out how that qualifies as THEFT, especially when I would have never in my life bought a Ferrari anyway, whether or not I had the magicial power to duplicate one.

and about games, the main thing costing them sales is the fact that users are terrified that their game will INFECT their computer and break it… and that pirates get a SUPERIOR product to what the consumers get… the protections are causing most of the piracy in the video game market…

Just because they don’t want to pay for it and companies aren’t really missing out on revenue because of the theft doesn’t make it acceptable. Theft is theft no matter how you put a spin on it.

Whatever next? Car thief writes review of the last Ferrari they stole and sales rocket…thanks car thief please carry on.

What?
According to Karen Croxson, digital piracy may help companies. As a new-media minded person working in a traditionally old-media world I am a little conflicted here. I am coming around to Chris Anderson’s Free mantra, and I absolutely bel…

Let’s show these companies there is at least a difference between good and bad piracy.

#40 – In a documentary on VH1, Lars Ulrich said, “I don’t care if people download our music, I just don’t want them to download it before the album even comes out”. Their complaint was that songs from St. Anger were available from p2p sources long before the album was ready – some of which were early, incomplete versions that, they felt, gave consumers a bad example of what their new music sounded like.
I went out and bought St.Anger when it first came out and was severely disappointed with it. I wish I had downloaded it, first, because I definitely wouldn’t have paid real money for it, had I known how bad the production was on it.

As far as “good pirates” vs “bad pirates” goes, I beleive we all fall into the grey area (somewhere in between). I do get stuff that I actually want but I also get stuff that I may not have paid any attention to (much less paid any money for) and have reccomended some things to people that they’d never heard of but ended up liking.

Or is it the fact that any US company caught using pirated software will be choked with crippling penalties?

Also I had complained abt few greymarketers of town to Sony (they mainly pirated PS2 so no MS), but instead they were offered to keep orignals and they keep origanls of PS3 which sell although less but sell and also this things goes for 360 its games are also selling atleast much better than Xbox 1, althought it has stronger channel on account of being hacked so it(360) sells more than former.

People will say that company are loosing but see another part if their was no piracy here their would have been no popularity in games here.

1) d/l it from a public tracker (if it’s available)
2) d/l it from a private tracker
3) if all of the above fails I just live w/o it (this happens very rarely though).

:-)

Still, these sort of excellent articles are what make us return each and every day to ur site.

U ROCKKKKKKKKKKK!!!:)

So there was never any money to be earned by the people who made the material.

Also, the music industry is helped the most by piracy. Especially the up and coming bands. The internet has allowed for people to share a bands music all over the world. Giving it tons of media exposure. Which leads to more sales and more chances of doing concerts. Which is where most of a bands money comes from.

I then took a friend to see the movie in my local cinema.

Then I bought loads of the official toys, posters and books that came out.

People asked me what I thought of the movie and based on my review they saw the movie.

The VHS tapes were releases (in widescreen and pan & scan) so I bought a copy of each.

I even bought it on VCD (import).

The movie was not released on laserdisc so I bought it on DVD.

I also supported the movie by buying many products with its name attached (Pepsi, etc).

Also bought games for PSX, N-64 & PC.

Taking all that in to account…IF I had watched a ‘pirate’ copy of the movie prior to it’s UK release, how would I have ‘damaged’ the film industry? How EXACTLY would I have swindled Mr Lucas?

And that’s just one example…don’t get me started on Highlander…

By being the victims of lawsuits so the record companies can sue the hell out of pirates to make up for low album sales.

This story has been submitted to Stirrdup. Your support can help it become hot….

The fact is that video games are fun and software is useful but not so much that I would ever dip into my money reserves to purchase it.

Then you try it, and recommend it to someone else, and somewhere in there, someone pays for it. They make money on that. That’s what they meant.

“Thomas Edison invented the phongraphic record player, musicians branded him a pirate out to steal their work and destroy the live music business – until a system was established so everyone could be paid royalties, and the record industry was born. Edison, in turn, went on to film making and demanded a licensing fee from those making movies with his technology. This caused a band of film making pirates, including a man named William, to flee New York for the then still Wild West; where they thrived unlicensed, until Edison’s patents expired. These pirates continue to operate there, albeit legally now, in the town they founded: Hollywood.

William’s last name? Fox.”

ohh the irony…

#23,#33, thank you for your well put thoughts.
almost nothing to add, except one thing, but only because that is strictly my example, and its bothering me last few months. new pink floy box-set has come out. and also wanted to add to that “Pulse”. it costs about third of my month paycheck.

couldnt care less, i am “die for” fan, and its worth that money for me. but what is the problem, i have 30+ GB of pink floyd stuff on my computer and burned dvd’s. if i give all that money because im a fan, will that money be used to hunt me down and sue me?

Same Here.. Who Will Buy It for $1000+ ?

Again , Thanx to Pirates.

Are you sure, that in case you couldn’t pirate you wouldn’t look for *free* alternatives? If you would then your current actions still don’t neccessarily count for loss of sales, but more in the lines of ‘potential loss’. Which, despite what BSA&MPAA&friends are saying, ain’t the same thing

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any act[s] of obtaining copyrighted material for free *is* piracy..as defined by law and EULA…..in almost every country…..altho,enforced differently…..

[quote comment="317951"]I have lots of fileshared music and movies, none of it pirated however….LMAO[/quote]

oh really,mind to list them here so that we can “share” them ?

and if u all read my post carefully,u’ll see that i never mention any thing about pirating music,due to the fact that most of them are just noise….in fact,i think i deserved to b compensated every time i’m exposed to musics i dont like every time i’m out there in the mall,cafe,cineme,…etc…

and i’m honestly surprised there’s actually some1[individual,not bizneses] out there that would buy something that’s available for free. would u pay for air when u can get it for free ? all i kno is that ppl pay for air only when they couldnt get it for free like under water/on moon(paid by nasa)/burning building(by fire department) or stuff like that.

oh,btw,how many of u have downloaded the leaked version of manhunt 2,and intend to buy the official censored version ?

i have always been and a strong supporter of R*,but not strong enough save enough $$$ to buy a legit copy,…..hmmm

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manhunt 2 is finally coming out in the uk and with all the controversy surrounding it will assure that it will no doubt do very well for a game that is apparently pretty poor and was designed for a last generation console. That is the value of exposure. “all news is good news” and that idea applies to piracy not just crappy celebrities.
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…and despite what Binsy said,manhunt 2 is a great game(for almost a month)and there’s still at least a year or two of glory in good old ps2,until granturismo6 came out.
gt5 will most likely ended-up like gt1 and gt3,over rushed and under developed,premature-ly realeased……until gt6 came out,i wont buy ps3,…

I agree with the article and I too don’t lose sleep over the fact that there may be something I would’ve bought if I could afford it, but downloaded instead. If they didn’t try so hard to protect it, bloating the code and inflating the cost, I probably wouldn’t give it much attention. Those of us with no work and who maybe don’t use credit cards either, should have some concessions, since there are so very few in other areas. We still have the same bills to pay as everyone else and can’t afford greedy jacked up prices, and why should we have to miss out on life? Price stuff reasonably and fairly and even the poor may start buying more.

I’ve done my part in promoting good rare media, and people end up buying it after scouring the world, as they can’t find it online anymore, and they’re too proud to ask for a copy.

True, they’re just good. btw why do u keep advertising your crap?

Arrrrr! Ramming Speed, aye Captain!

I’ll recommend software to anyone. I won’t offer pirated stuff to anyone who I’m not absolutely sure is going to just go find a pirated version of whatever I recommended anyway, I sure as hell will not install any pirated stuff on anyone else’s computer, and I will actively discourage the use of pirated software on any sort of business machine.

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Several months ago I downloaded an mp3 pack that included a few Michael Buble songs. I wasn’t a huge fan but I figured my mother would enjoy his music so I burnt her a disk to play when entertaining.

She fell in love with the music and while she recieves it for free, I know for a fact at least a dozen of her friends have purchased several of his albums, especially his Christmas album.

This is a perfect example of how I pirated something that I never would have purchased, or even knew existed, but inadvertently advertised for several hundred dollars in sales.