Aaargh! Pirates!

Like I said before, and like this article states... Software developers are hurt primarily by RETAIL PIRACY (ie: selling illegal copies of software as legit). The Warez scene has little effect on the developers profit, in comparison. This isn't about ISO's and "Juarez" and IRC and CD Burners. This is about people burning 10000 copies of office 2000, or starcraft, and then selling them for $5 a piece. There is a huge difference, and you guys don't seem to grasp that.

Why Pirate?

You're bored.
You're "l33t"
You're thirteen.
You're too cheap
or... if you're asian, it's just a given.

Someones thinking about something here! hehe

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Creative people should be paid for their work, Steven King writes, just as plumbers and carpenters and accountants are paid for theirs.

"On the other hand," King's letter continues, "I think that the current technology is rapidly turning the whole idea of copyright into a risky proposition -- not quite a joke, but something close to it."

King proposes fans pay $1 per installment and suggests everyone be on the honor system. He said he'll cease publication if too many people steal the story.

"But I just don't believe that will happen. I mean, we're talking a buck a pop here, right?" King finishes up by asking.
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Okay... now who's going to p1rat3 K1ng's 0-DaY PDF N0v3L?

Respect.

I bet at least over 75 - 80% of you have at least 1 piece of software that you did not buy. Be it borrowed, copied, downloaded, so quit trying to be all holier than thou with your comments.

ItÂ’s very simple. If you can get away with stealing you will do it. If the anonymous factor remains on the Internet there will always be a thief. If they know who is stealing then it will be easy to determine who it is and the person will be penalized for their actions.

i dont care what pirates do, as long at they dont play those pirate accapela songs. man those songs are complete shit and since some of my co-workers are rennies (rennaisance fair junkies), now i gotta hear cd's of that shit ALL THE TIME.

fatbeaner

the Corsairs suck

True: Piracy is a damn dirty thing, but it's nothing we can do anything about. Ever since the days of Windows 3.1 piracy has existed in my life, and its not something unusual. I find it rare that any of my friends or aquaintences will acutally register a copy of Windows, Office 2000, or Frontpage XX. They will ususally install it and hand it over to me to burn, install, and distribute to all our other friends.

That's the way it is. I bought Quake 2, Quake 3, Half-life, Unreal (stfu), Need For Speed 3, and every other game that I own. Even Doom2. Quake, I will admit, was not my cd, but it is what I have to thank for bringing me into the first person shooter scene.

It pisses me off when Keygen pages exist, and when I can't play Half-life because my CD key is in use. Sure the right steps are being taken, but there will always be that crowd that never pays for anything and will not stop to do so.. ever.

Get over it people. If you bought the game, and I didn't I'm terribly sorry. That's the way things go.


Dopeman

It's fairly likely that the TRUE damage of pirating (i.e. those who pirate software when they really have no excuse) is less than what the figures say. That's still a nasty bite into profits though. In North America the figure may be 10-15% "really bad piracy," but in places like Russia and Argentina there's no getting around the fact that piracy is a HUGE problem.

I think the people who casually grab ISOs and the like over in North America don't realize that copy protection isn't really there just to catch them. It's to catch some guy in Moscow who thinks it's perfectly okay to snag several games in the black market instead of one legit copy sold at a store.

And just remember... Microsoft may be loaded with money (right now, anyways), but most companies aren't Microsoft. Trying to pass off pirating as sticking it to The Man (tm) doesn't work when you don't care who you're pirating FROM.

someone post some porn

Without reading the comments here (as I don't care much for warez discussion), I have but one thing to say:
warez = shitty shitty fag fag with a big side of eat my ass
I hope this enlightens all who happen to read it.

Ever made a cassette tape of an album you like and given it to someone? Ever taken one from someone else? I've never warezed a computer game, but I've made a tape of one or two selected songs from a music CD and given it to someone. If I'm against computer game warez, it's only because I prefer to support the companies who have quality games with my hard-earned money. I can be against warez and try to stop people from warezing, but I doubt many other people out there who are against warez are as guiltless and self-righteous as they make themselves out to be.

If a large portion of warez is stopped on the net through legislation, it will diminish the numbers, but when computers come equipped with CD burners, many people will go ahead and make copies of their favorite game.

People who are working for a living value their dollar because they work their ass off for it; and when we have to dish out forty bucks for a game, it tends to make us do a little research and exercise a little patience so we don't waste money. I like to feel proud about giving my money to a company that just made a quality game: I have eagerly forked out money to Looking Glass for their top-notch games. However, when there are companies like Xatrix who put out fine demos and then the rest of the game is crap, or when Romero spends millions of Eidos's money and then puts out a game of complete shit, or when I walk through the music store and see music CD's at 18.99 a pop, I can't help but consider the justification that "they get what they deserve." If they charge that much for their music or software, there will always be a group ready to steal it.

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shit if I warez anything its becuase I wasn't going to buy it, or just want an extended demo.

Most games that I warez off and play enough to like I go buy anyway, becuase warez are usually pretty ripped up and I want to support the company that made the good game.

I really don't feel like I'm doing anything illegal when I warez off a copy of, say Panty Raider and play it for 20 minutes then delete it off my harddrive because it sux serious ass.

Like #188 said, I don't think Piracy is seriously hurting the industry, just as its the same with MP3's.

Aye, the plank!

MAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN O'ERBOOOOAAAAARRRRRRD!!!!!

Bootlegging is the greater evil of piracy.

whats the punishment for piracy? like up to 2 yrs prison and 500,000 bucks penalty or somethin?

fatbeaner

"i'm sentencing you all to 2 years in a federal 'pounding-in-the-ass' penitantary'"

W4r3Z M0NK3Y'S

Dopeman
(has never paid for anything.. except for Quake3 and Half Life. UNF.)

Piracy is bad?!?!??? DAMN!
/me deletes his gig of mp3's

did we already do anal raiders ?

Oh wait. Quake 2 :(

Dopeman

there are three types of people warezing games/apps/whatever.

1) person who wants a piece of software but could never POSSIBLY afford it, or justify paying for it for the limited purposes they have for wanting it. an example would be 3d studio max. that son of a bitch is like $3,000 d00d!

this type of person does not harm the industry, since they would not buy the software anyway. in fact, this type of person might even HELP the industry, because they might discover how cool this piece of software is, and at least buy the upgrade (which is usually cheaper than buying the full version) the next time a new version of the software comes out.

2) person who stumbles across a piece of software and downloads it without knowing what they're getting. they weren't planning on buying the software in the first place, so the industry doesn't lose money, there, either.

3) then there's the person who wants a piece of software, has the money to pay for it, but warezes (?) it anyway. those people are more or less harming the industry.

so, not ALL warez harms the industry directly...

that worked out well...

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Ahoy mateys, somebody give my parrot a friggin cracker.

hehe

Those numbers are so fucking bogus it isn't even funny.
Think of A Kid who never buys games, or buys maybe 2 a year because hes a poor bastard. He learns how to warez and now hes downloading 50 games a year. How much money does the industry think its lost? It thinks it's lost $2,500 a year; the cost of the 50 games the kid downloaded. That is total bullshit because if it weren't for warez he never would have bought them anyway.

Bah, If they divide those numbers by 100 they would be more accurate.