meznaric wrote...
Are you really so naive? Piracy is not illegal because politicians think it's stealing. It is illegal because it being illegal makes more money to the people supporting the election campaigns... And no, this is rarely a bunch of computer programmers (well, MS and some other large companies are exceptions, but arguably they have a larger marketing department than the software development).
I'm a software engineer. I write software for a living, for a large company. Software piracy is property theft, pure and simple. Some people like to think that because the property cannot be physically touched, that it doesn't properly qualify as theft, but in terms of lost income for the developers it impacts them with about as much equivalence as stealing money straight out of their wallets.
Arguing that the publishers and big corps make the majority of the money and the little guys don't get as much, and that makes it somehow justifiable to steal from the big corps is a totally facile argument. The big corps re-use funds to pay for the development of new games. New games and new software cost tens of millions of dollars, sometimes even hundreds of millions of dollars to get out the door. Where does the pirater think that money comes from? Certainly not from the pirate.
Trying to justify it as all one big conspiracy to rip everyone off is utterly retarded. Yes, there are lobby groups to get politicians to take action to come down hard on piracy, and they do that because without the revenue from legitimate game and software sales, the future of the company, and the developers, goes down the toilet and everyone starts looking for a new job.
Inherently believing that piracy is justified is a wholly self-delusional argument, and shows that the individual who believes such is selfish beyond normal comprehension. It ranks right up there with shoplifting and using the excuse that it's right because you're poor, and it's the shop's fault for making you want it so much. It is so selfish and facile that it defies belief.
Edit: Copying cars is a retarded argument. You'd have to have paid for all the resources and labour to copy the car yourself. The equivalent in that respect in a software sense would be writing the entire game yourself from scratch with only the storyline to go with (the car blueprints). You're not just doing that though with piracy, you're stealing the entire kit and kaboodle, and not paying any money to anyone for anything. It's theft. If you can't afford it, don't buy it. If you want it, buy it and give some money to those who helped bring the game to you so that they can continue to make more games in the future.
Modifié par TheUnusualSuspect, 28 février 2010 - 12:14 .
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