Why do you pirate games?

[Deleted User]

You are using something you didn't pay for and don't have the rights to use. That's stealing, kid.

But you're making a copy of it, not taking it.

 

[VinsCool]

 

[GalladeGuy]

But you're making a copy of it, not taking it.

Yes, but that doesn't make it right. You are still using a product without having the right to use it.

 

[Deleted User]

Yes, but that doesn't make it right. You are still using a product without having the right to use it.

You could say I also don't have the right to use a photo I took with the 3DS camera because of what the user agreement says.

By accepting this Agreement or using a Nintendo 3DS System or the Nintendo 3DS Service, you also grant to Nintendo a worldwide, royalty-free, irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive and fully sublicensable license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, perform and display your User Content in whole or in part and to incorporate your User Content in other works, in any form, media or technology now known or later developed, including for promotional or marketing purposes. (Chapter 1, Nintendo 3DS End User License Agreement)

 

[GalladeGuy]

You could say I also don't have the right to use a photo I took with the 3DS camera because of what the user agreement says.

Sorry, I don't speak lawyer.

 

[wawnord]

Why do you pirate games?

Cause i'm a pirate

 

[Games&Stuff]

Cuz I like not paying for something

 

[PaiiNSteven]

I'm dead broke.

 

[Yil]

1. Nintendo has no regard of abusing any non-Japanese employee, considering how much Retro studio hate their master piece.
2. Games made by EA and activision are just not worth the money.
3. Cheats to get through some annoying parts of a game.

 

[CosmoCortney]

1. Don't want to pay for a game of another region when I do already own the European one
   
2. Sometime I pirate a game for creating cheat codes and then never touch it again. Not worth paying for them.
3. Some games aren't released here (Tales of Graces for the Wii for example which is beautiful game)
4. Rare retro games are totally overpriced.

 

[Subtle Demise]

It's fun

 

[GhostLatte]

 

[lonemoonHD]

1. So I can access the game anywhere. I load up Splatoon frrom my SDHC when I want, even if I lost the disc.

2. To access what you couldn't previously have. Textures and audio are the biggest reason for me, I love texture hacking and emulating custom content.

3. The reason everyone pirates. Some people are just not willing to pay 55€ for Smash even after it's been long released, myself included. Why not pirate it instead? I have 5 other Wii U games, I have a clear conscience despite pirating one for my collection.

 

[Monado_III]

lol, When I hold my mouse over that video is asks if I want to download it.

edit (some lyrics from that song):
Don't take away money
From artists just like me
How else can I afford another solid gold Hum V
And diamond studded swimming pools
These things don't grow on trees

 

[sl0ps]

Actually, Gallade, it'd be more stealing if they were profiting from piracy. (fingers maybe pointed at ad.fly harpees, but I won't say it out of parenthesis)
There have been times I've paid for a game that ended up being legit vaporware, so maybe that's why I'm not such a moral-crusading knight over the subject.

That all being said, this topic doesn't belong on the site at all. This is more of a 'news and discussion' intended site. Piracy happens for a plethora of reasons that haven't really changed at all. It's a buzzword that tries to cover a number of 'breaches of Copyright Law'
Content creators (at least some) will tell you that someone who pirates something, that is a past customer, and continues to buy their products, are not the sort they aim to go after.
The ones that are doing something that is not-in-the-gray are those who sell bootlegs and profit off of pilfering others work. I think plagiarist would be the 'nicest' term you could give such a person. (/pretendingtoseriouslyreply)*Since some of you skim and reply*

Support what you love, whether you borrow things or not. This thread has a shit title. You're a scab, feel bad.

 

[Monado_III]

Actually, Gallade, it'd be more stealing if they were profiting from piracy. (fingers maybe pointed at ad.fly harpees, but I won't say it out of parenthesis)
There have been times I've paid for a game that ended up being legit vaporware, so maybe that's why I'm not such a moral-crusading knight over the subject.

That all being said, this topic doesn't belong on the site at all. This is more of a 'news and discussion' intended site. Piracy happens for a plethora of reasons that haven't really changed at all. It's a buzzword that tries to cover a number of 'breaches of Copyright Law'
Content creators (at least some) will tell you that someone who pirates something, that is a past customer, and continues to buy their products, are not the sort they aim to go after.
The ones that are doing something that is not-in-the-gray are those who sell bootlegs and profit off of pilfering others work. I think plagiarist would be the 'nicest' term you could give such a person.

Support what you love, whether you borrow things or not. This thread has a shit title. You're a scab, feel bad.

Dude, it's in the EOF for a reason.

 

[sl0ps]

Dude, it's in the EOF for a reason.

I know tone doesn't carry over text, see my revision. Should I bold it for you like you did for me? Cause I did, now. c;

 

[G0R3Z]

Because I'm not paying £40 for a copy of Xenoblade chronicles for Wii. As collecting is getting harder to do, people are pirating because people aren't budging on keeping games on their shelves. Then there's game shops that keep rare games on glass cases for absurd prices so they can keep them longer.

I also like digital media. I know it's piracy but it's copying, not stealing. I like having a neatly organised PS2 folder on my computer for OPL, or a large database on USB loader GX on my Wii U. It's easier, takes up less space and memory is cheap - games are not.

 

[Margen67]

1. So I can access the game anywhere. I load up Splatoon frrom my SDHC when I want, even if I lost the disc.

Then stop losing the game..?

 

[lonemoonHD]

Then stop losing the game..?

That was not the point I was making. It's a backup, a backup is a measure of going back to something you lost access to.