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[Beerfish]

ca.news.yahoo.com/s/afp/100209/technology/technology_australia_piracy_games_nintendo

[Humanoid_Taifun]

I personally dislike it when people try to convince others of the futility of bad deeds.

"Crime doesn't pay,", "racists are all stupid" and all the other fundamental truths that are meant to keep children straight, but when someday they realize that crime does pay (in fact, this is the main reason for the existence of crime), then it is truly unfortunate if that was the only argument that kept them from becoming criminals themselves. Better be honest. Crime pays but out of other people's pockets. That's bad because society is a shared project. The more people forego others to benefit themselves, the less society there is.

[Adaram]

I expect that the person convicted will likely end up declaring bankruptcy and not ever really paying the money. But that's beside the point, really. Good for Nintendo for pushing this appropriately.

[Beerfish]

Humanoid_Taifun wrote...

I personally dislike it when people try to convince others of the futility of bad deeds.
"Crime doesn't pay,", "racists are all stupid" and all the other fundamental truths that are meant to keep children straight, but when someday they realize that crime does pay (in fact, this is the main reason for the existence of crime), then it is truly unfortunate if that was the only argument that kept them from becoming criminals themselves. Better be honest. Crime pays but out of other people's pockets. That's bad because society is a shared project. The more people forego others to benefit themselves, the less society there is.

Of course crime pays, my folly was making the statement sound general rather than specific to this case.  Thus I agree with you.

[Borschtbeet]

Good news, hopefully the scum from piratebay are next.

[Lotion Soronarr]

Crime doesn't pay in the long run...When you meet the Maker.

[Amberyl Ravenclaw]

Lotion Soronnar wrote...

Crime doesn't pay in the long run...When you meet the Maker.

Assuming the Maker has the same notions of justice and fairness as we do, though.

[Mistress9Nine]

Humanoid_Taifun wrote...

I personally dislike it when people try to convince others of the futility of bad deeds.
"Crime doesn't pay,", "racists are all stupid" and all the other fundamental truths that are meant to keep children straight, but when someday they realize that crime does pay (in fact, this is the main reason for the existence of crime), then it is truly unfortunate if that was the only argument that kept them from becoming criminals themselves. Better be honest. Crime pays but out of other people's pockets. That's bad because society is a shared project. The more people forego others to benefit themselves, the less society there is.

I don't this case demonstrated this well though, because he clearly didn't have any monetary gain from this. I guess.

[Seagloom]

Adaram wrote...

I expect that the person convicted will likely end up declaring bankruptcy and not ever really paying the money. But that's beside the point, really. Good for Nintendo for pushing this appropriately.

I have to agree with this. Even if he tried to pay that off the chances of him succeeding are fairly dismal. Taken in that context the lawsuit seems a bit frivolous. Nintendo also did nothing to penalize people that actually downloaded their game. Granted, it's unlikely they would ever track down all those people if they tried, but suing this one guy who will probably never pay won't convince the world at large to stop pirating their software.

Modifié par Seagloom, 11 février 2010 - 04:24 .

[Vansen Elamber]

I used to know this PC gamer and all he had on his PC were games he downloaded for free, he never paid for a game, ever. He had a good job, made a good living, but he still felt he had to get pirate versions of all his games, and mostly he said it was because of the copy protection issues that come with all retail games. I don't see the guy anymore but I suspect there are a lot of PC gamers who do this today.  The only reason I ever went over to his house was to see what games were coming, he always had them well before release, and to check out the gameplay to see if I wanted to buy it.

Modifié par Vansen Elamber, 11 février 2010 - 05:37 .

[Mistress9Nine]

Vansen Elamber wrote...

I used to know this PC gamer and all he had on his PC were games he downloaded for free, he never paid for a game, ever. He had a good job, made a good living, but he still felt he had to get pirate versions of all his games, and mostly he said it was because of the copy protection issues that come with all retail games. I don't see the guy anymore but I suspect there are a lot of PC gamers who do this today.  The only reason I ever went over to his house was to see what games were coming, he always had them well before release, and to check out the gameplay to see if I wanted to buy it.

That's quite a double-standard. You criticizing him for pirating games but having no trouble enjoying the privilages of early downloads. I'm not saying there is anything wrong with checking out a game before buying it, but if you condone piracy you should also stay away from it.

[Glahardt]

Mistress9Nine wrote...

but if you condone piracy you should also stay away from it.

That's quite the hypocrisy.

[Humanoid_Taifun]

Mistress9Nine wrote...
I don't this case demonstrated this well though, because he clearly didn't have any monetary gain from this. I guess.

Yeah, I've been a bit general... He also clearly acted on behalf of others, so my statement doesn't fit at all.