Why Piracy Will Become More Prevalent

[Jamstruth]

The main problem with this theory is that most of the downloads would not have ever been sales. I mainly pirate games I am curious about, but would not buy. I buy most games that I really want and pirate ones I'm just vaguely interested in. Artists can't lose money on sales that would never have been.

 

[Retal]

Considering it's just a random blog post, it's surprisingly well written. Sadly, not free of flaws, including technical inaccuracies and confusing passages particularly towards the end.

 

[AnotherMuggle]

I've seen this before and I think it completely misses the point:

The "theft" is not of the item that the copy was made from.
The theft is of the sale that would/could have been if the copy was not made.

 

[Yumi]

There is a place here in Mexico called Tepito where everything is pirated and works. Wiis/PSPs/PS3/Xbox360/DS/Tapes/cell-phones/DVDS/Vinyls/even clothes. o_o
Modding your PS3/Xbox360 costs you 300Pesos (approx $30 U.S.). I know this because a cousin who lives near Tepito(dangerous place) owns a PS3/Xbox360 went there and got everything modded for $60. Games range from 50-120pesos($5-$12)(probably even more but that's what I've seen).

A brand new movie is announced and is yet to hit theaters, Tepito will already have it with perfect visuals/audio. Same goes with games and music.

So IMO piracy doesn't seem to be getting harder to do.

Time to smoke some of my pirated weed. x)

 

[zuron7]

I've had enough of these discussions on Piracy.
But one thing for sure piracy will exist for a long long time till one day everything becomes free.No, I'm not joking one day everything will be free.
For example take a look at cellphones.The prices for making calls have come down so much that literally everyone owns a cell phone.In a few more years it might become free considering that it already is if you use some thing like Skype on your Cellhone.

Another thing is that you might be getting lots of stuff for free using the "internet" but you still have to pay that bill you get at the end of the month.

 

[Panzer Tacticer]

"Under English law the Theft Act 1968....."

Worthless comment if you are not subject to English law of course.

In addition, every time the FBI warns me on a video, I am free to flip it the bird. Sorry FBI, this is Canada where not surprisingly, the FBI has zero jurisdiction.

Any time you make a remark based on a specific legal wording of a specific law as written in a specific legal code of a specific country, you might have said something of merit to a fellow countryman, but you haven't said anything of worth outside of that country.

We have military forces around the world for that reason. Your country's laws don't have to mean anything to us if way say they don't.
Don't like it, do something about it eh.

Now, in as much as the thinking well I never stole the 'original' thus it isn't theft. Totally moronic thinking.

If you made it possible to have access to something, that was not your right to have access to, without paying for that access, you have stolen the chance of the person to gain profit by your action.

The only important thing in this discussion, is 'do you give a fuck if you denied a loser an opportunity to make a sale from his worthless fucking crap?'

I don't mind downloading DS games, seeing that they are crap, deleting them, and NOT putting 40 bucks in the pocket of some schlockware shoveling operation.
As far as I am concerned, Nintendo is no different than those coupon venders that send me free envelopes in the mail hoping that I like at least something enough to want to buy it.
All the games on the download scene are just that, free advertising, and my Acekard is a mail box as I see it.
And if the game is not worthless crap, I usually buy it.

If Nintendo doesn't like this arrangement, too fucking bad.

 

[UltraMagnus]

"Under English law the Theft Act 1968....."

Worthless comment if you are not subject to English law of course.

Section 322 in Part 9 of the Criminal Code of Canada:
"a person steals a thing if he or she takes or converts it fraudulently, without colour of right and with intent to deprive the owner of it, either permanently or temporarily"

the Canadian definition seems much the same

 

[Panzer Tacticer]

"Under English law the Theft Act 1968....."

Worthless comment if you are not subject to English law of course.

Section 322 in Part 9 of the Criminal Code of Canada:
"a person steals a thing if he or she takes or converts it fraudulently, without colour of right and with intent to deprive the owner of it, either permanently or temporarily"

the Canadian definition seems much the same

Don't give up your day job

"With intent to deprive the owner of it" You might wish to clarify what is being deprived further.

Although I can attempt to discern, that the first portion of the phrase implies a lost sale which stolen thus depriving the owner of it. But that's the thrill of law isn't it. The implied statement is possible, but not specifically stated.

I wonder how many hear are aware that EULAs in Canada are not enforceable if not offered up to the consumer BEFORE the sale is conducted. Thus every time you install a program where you are required to say yes or no to an agreement, if you were unable to make this decision prior to purchase, the entire document is voided. Not that that will work with all manner of forms of digital products, especially where a EULA is not present or required.

 

[Sterling]

If Nintendo, and all the other console companies would allow every game they sell to have a preview version (ie game devs make two different versions of the same game, but one will only play to a certain part, or only a few hours of multi-player, etc.) I think they would recieve sooo many more sales. In Nintendo's case, they should have a cart that allows you to download the preview versions from a site, and play them. They should bundle this with every handheld console. Everyone else needs to have some sort of service with the console. I know that if I could play a few (minutes to hours) of every game I might want to buy, I would buy so many more games! For now though, piracy is the answer!

 

[Panzer Tacticer]

If Nintendo offered previews of what we all know is 9 times out of 10 total shit, I doubt it would help at all

I have only regretted buying a couple of games for my Nintendo.

One was a military shooter, and I should have known a shooter on a small screen was an impossible idea.

The other was an arcade compilation, and yes, I suppose I should have just known better.

 

[Skid00dshi]

Everyone pirates. That is all.

 

[InuYasha]

So many games go untranslated to many of us they should be thankful people still buy their shit these days....

 

[Yuan]

http://blog.wolfire.com/2010/05/Another-view-of-game-piracy

Emphatizing PC games piracy

 

[CJL18]

if the wii was like the ps3 and you couldnt play backups i would of never bought one. SAme with psp back in 2007 i read about playing playstation 1 games on my psp with custom firmware and i was sold! Games are expensive and most of them arent worth 20dollars let alone 50-60