Do you pirate?

[purkinje]

Even if I was rich and I could buy hundreds of games and other media (music, movies) I would still pirate.

Why buy anything when you can get it for free?

So the people who made those "free" stuff can have the money to keep making them.

Let the developers make their money off of those who don't know about piracy, those who are against piracy, or who are too stupid to pull it off.

Piracy has been around for a long time, and developers are still getting paid, and the companies that make successful titles still get tons of sales and are financially successful.

The same can be said for music/film - I don't see anyone in Hollywood out on the street panhandling because no one buys their product.

 

[Scott-105]

So far, 94% of GBAtemp have pirated before and 91% still do.

 

[Trulen]

1. Have you pirated before?
Yes

2. Do you currently pirate?
Yes

3. If you pirate, why do you?
It's fast. Newsgroups says "Hello max bandwitdth."
It's easy. Search. Click. Download.
It's free. I COULD pay for it, and have less money to buy things I CAN'T pirate, but I won't. I'd rather be able to eat for 9 days rather than 5.

I've got little moral fibre when it comes to downloading.
If I made an indie game, I wouldn't be made at pirates.
Why?
Because I know it's going to be downloaded for free.


But at the same time, I have a PS3. So I have to buy all my games. Well, sort of. Hurrah game-sharing on PSN! Thouhg I bought Scott Pilgrim Vs the World. Worth the 10 bucks.

And... I'm totally preordering the $80 edition of LittleBigPlanet 2....

I'm a terrible pirate :[

 

[Scott-105]

But at the same time, I have a PS3. So I have to buy all my games. Well, sort of. Hurrah game-sharing on PSN! Thouhg I bought Scott Pilgrim Vs the World. Worth the 10 bucks.

And... I'm totally preordering the $80 edition of LittleBigPlanet 2....

I'm a terrible pirate :[

Well, it's like you have a choice...Also, what's game sharing?

 

[KingAsix]

yes, yes, and because I don't have the money to spend on games that I rarely have time to play...well I don't have the money anyway! Last game I bought was Scott Pilgrim vs The World which was so worth the $10 and the last physical game I bought was Phantasy Star Portable I and I'm thinking about buying KH Birth by Sleep

 

[Canonbeat234]

Yes I use to pirate and it was awesome.

No, I don't currently do that anymore.

Well, it was for economical flexiblity to where I can buy a DS device to can play majority of the DS games without giving a cent for any additional cost to the other game companies.

 

[Trulen]

But at the same time, I have a PS3. So I have to buy all my games. Well, sort of. Hurrah game-sharing on PSN! Thouhg I bought Scott Pilgrim Vs the World. Worth the 10 bucks.

And... I'm totally preordering the $80 edition of LittleBigPlanet 2....

I'm a terrible pirate :[

Well, it's like you have a choice...Also, what's game sharing?

Well, you can have 5 PS3 systems tied to your PSN account. Any system tied to your account can download games you bought.
So, I have a group of friends. We all put accounts on each other's PS3's. So, if they buy something on PSN, I log into their account on my PS3, and download it from the store.

But we put in equal share. I buy games, and they can download it from me.


The game's still being paid for, it's just like a Buy-one-get-four-free thing.

 

[Scott-105]

But at the same time, I have a PS3. So I have to buy all my games. Well, sort of. Hurrah game-sharing on PSN! Thouhg I bought Scott Pilgrim Vs the World. Worth the 10 bucks.

And... I'm totally preordering the $80 edition of LittleBigPlanet 2....

I'm a terrible pirate :[

Well, it's like you have a choice...Also, what's game sharing?

Well, you can have 5 PS3 systems tied to your PSN account. Any system tied to your account can download games you bought.
So, I have a group of friends. We all put accounts on each other's PS3's. So, if they buy something on PSN, I log into their account on my PS3, and download it from the store.

But we put in equal share. I buy games, and they can download it from me.


The game's still being paid for, it's just like a Buy-one-get-four-free thing.

Ah, so It's kind of like iTunes accounts.

 

[gifi4]

1. Have you pirated before?
Yes
2.Do you currently pirate?
Yes
3. If you pirate, why do you?
Because I don't have much money and
I don't want to pay for something that is worthless,
(crap movie, boring game etc.)

Spoiler

I pirate loads of things, movies, tv shows, games, books, w/e I want LOL!

If I had to pay for all the things I've pirated, it would cost a couple of $100,000's pretty close to a million

EDIT: How do I do Spoiler Titles?

 

[DarkShadow96]

Never pirated before because I was very paranoid lol.

I currently pirate cause I am better with computers and I now know that it's not possible for a cop to bust me straight away LoL...

I pirate because it's sometimes hard to find "certain" things you can't in stores. Also, I get very pissed off when I waste money on a VERY shitty game(DBZ Sagas) so that's why I like to pirate the game just to see if I would of wasted money or not. If the game is very good, I normally buy a copy of the game just to show my thanks(Monster Hunter Tri).

 

[murkurie]

1. Have you pirated before?
Yes
2.Do you currently pirate?
Yes
3. If you pirate, why do you?
I'm cheap, I have the money. I'm not paying money for a whole season of a TV show, that I have on my DVR recorded. just download it, and call it a backup. I do pay for games though. I like having physical copy, same with some music.

 

[Maz7006]

1. Yes

2. Yes

3.

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Pirate all my software and OS - I never bought a single thing that's if it wasn't already bundled with some hardware.

I pirate 360 games just because i can and the Live experience doesn't really appeal to me anymore.

I pirate DS games since everyone else does it.

I pirate my films just because it easier and quicker.

I don't pirate my PS3 games because i just don't (even if it may be possible i wouldn't).

I don't pirate my PC games.

I don't pirate my music.

 

[ZeroTm]

1. Yes, I have

2. Only to test games.

3. Used to pirate because of the lack of money. I am now a working student with lots of money! Gamez HUUUZZZAAAH

 

[jefffisher]

1. Have you pirated before? yes, i started on the dreamcast
2.Do you currently pirate? yes
3. If you pirate, why do you? i pirate what isnt worth buying, i bought super mario galaxy, super smash brother brawl, twilight princess etc the good games worth money. i pirate all the ones i know i'm only going to want to play for a day and never touch it again.

 

[Infinite Zero]

1.I have pirated

2.I am currently pirating especially expensive programs

3.I pirate because I can and no one forbids me

 

[SixtySixHundred]

1. Yes.

2. Yes.

3. I do it because I like to 'try before I buy'. However, If I like a game I've pirated, I will buy it! That's how it is for games, but things like my OSes, I will continue to use for free until somebody kills me for doing it!

 

[MFDC12]

music? conditionally. i buy my favorite things (h is orange, hello dragon, helicopter helicopter, etc) and rip them to flac myself.
movies? yes. then i buy them if i like them (i have a huge collection)
tv? yes, while they air on tv. i buy the ones i like when i have money (things such as mst3k cost wayyyy to much for a person with no job

)
games? depends. i only do it unless:
a) i have to original copy
b) used games of them cost way too much (out of print games)
c) want to try it.

as with everything, i buy thing i like/love. you should at least buy things, i mean, how are small bands you like going to make money? atleast buy merch directly from them.

 

[Didu50]

1. Have you pirated before? Yes
2. Do you currently pirate? Yes
3.If you pirate why do you? It's hard to earn enough money to purchase all the games I want. It is also very hard to find a job these days and I don't think its such a great time to Invest in Games.

 

[Blaze163]

I pirate because I'm poor. Been pirating ever since I heard about the Cyclo DS Evo, before that I was struggling to get a new game once ever six months. Considering I go through your average game in about three days, life really sucked ass back then.

Even with my new job, I don't have enough money to support my gaming addiction. So piracy remains my option. Either that or I go without, lack the escapism necessary to counteract the stress I go through every single day, finally snap and lose my mind and go on a killing spree. So piracy is the lesser of two evils, methinks.

 

[Hells Malice]

Pirate.

I'll buy a game that absolutely deserves it, but otherwise I pirate all of my games.
Except 360 games, since i'm too lazy to mod the stupid thing.

Games cost too much to warrant purchasing everything I want to play, and most aren't worth sinking a huge amount of money into.

Also getting some games early via pirating is a pretty sweet deal too. It's ever so fun to play a game that's released a week early and then go to the gamespot/gamefaqs boards and just torture people dying to play the game.