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<blockquote data-quote="Dr_Faustus" data-source="post: 9556304" data-attributes="member: 555112"><p>Piracy mainly exists for those who do not have proper access to the stuff regardless. Its not so much that they cannot buy it because they are poor, but because the country they are in or the situation they are unable to obtain it regardless of legitimacy. I might be showing my age a bit referencing this but back in the day when there was a West Germany and an East Germany the latter would not have access to various forms of media with the most desirable being Music which were very popular in cheap vinyl bootlegs being made and sold in secret since they were not allowed to have such things in said country. This was not done to hurt the sales of legitimate sales, but to get it to territories that would otherwise never allow such to exist in the first place for its people. A similar situation which Nintendo themselves did a workaround was that they were not allowed to sell their products in mainland china, but got around it by licensing deals with other companies inland to sell their products under a different name. </p><p></p><p>As for me, While I will not admit to pirating anything myself, I can understand why its a thing and examples of why its necessary in history. When things are hard to access or are forbidden because a controlling power prevents it for people, people should find the means to seek and obtain it for themselves any way they can. Culture is formed and/or destroyed this way. </p><p></p><p>Also I totally support the idea of distributing stuff that has long since been out of print or things that are typically innocuous and benefit interest of history of development (game/software betas) as well as rare materials that serve no greater purpose as they have no monetary gain to profit from it (unless they are one of those smegheads who think that owning a rare game and refusing to release a ROM of it makes it that much more valuable, in which case there is a special layer of hell waiting for those folk). </p><p></p><p>That is my take of the situation. Outside of that anything I might listen\watch\play, if I enjoy it enough I find myself supporting the creators anyway I can. Plus I am one of those old style folk that also loves to own physical copies of stuff. I have no problem showing my support as long as its accessible for me to.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dr_Faustus, post: 9556304, member: 555112"] Piracy mainly exists for those who do not have proper access to the stuff regardless. Its not so much that they cannot buy it because they are poor, but because the country they are in or the situation they are unable to obtain it regardless of legitimacy. I might be showing my age a bit referencing this but back in the day when there was a West Germany and an East Germany the latter would not have access to various forms of media with the most desirable being Music which were very popular in cheap vinyl bootlegs being made and sold in secret since they were not allowed to have such things in said country. This was not done to hurt the sales of legitimate sales, but to get it to territories that would otherwise never allow such to exist in the first place for its people. A similar situation which Nintendo themselves did a workaround was that they were not allowed to sell their products in mainland china, but got around it by licensing deals with other companies inland to sell their products under a different name. As for me, While I will not admit to pirating anything myself, I can understand why its a thing and examples of why its necessary in history. When things are hard to access or are forbidden because a controlling power prevents it for people, people should find the means to seek and obtain it for themselves any way they can. Culture is formed and/or destroyed this way. Also I totally support the idea of distributing stuff that has long since been out of print or things that are typically innocuous and benefit interest of history of development (game/software betas) as well as rare materials that serve no greater purpose as they have no monetary gain to profit from it (unless they are one of those smegheads who think that owning a rare game and refusing to release a ROM of it makes it that much more valuable, in which case there is a special layer of hell waiting for those folk). That is my take of the situation. Outside of that anything I might listen\watch\play, if I enjoy it enough I find myself supporting the creators anyway I can. Plus I am one of those old style folk that also loves to own physical copies of stuff. I have no problem showing my support as long as its accessible for me to. [/QUOTE]
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