What's the deal with restricting piracy?

Post » Sun May 01, 2011 2:41 pm

So, for some weird reason, this thing is sort of contreversial. I just see all of these people acting all silly over people sharing files with eachother, and giving it an evil name such as "piracy", since apearently, geeks who reprograms sourcecodes to function without buying the product, are somehow related to bloodthristy and drunken pscyhopaths who murdered and [censored] people to get their goods and belongings. But moving on... I know there is alot of things that's morally incorrect about piracy, but isn't it hipocritical to prohibit it? Since what really gives people the right to mind someone else's business, when it does not affect them, and please don't use something far-fetched like "piracy affects all of us", so does oxygen, and I'm sure people would be bothered if that was prohibited... For the, you know, first three minutes... I just wonder if the "banning" of piracy is just as bad as piracy itself, since these people dosn't bother you, it's a very selective thing, and if people don't like it, they can just go away. Just curious, is piracy really justified to be harrassed, or is it yet another excuse for people to be self-rightous, and have a "holier than thou"-complex?

Just asking for the fun of it, if I get banned, your loss, since I'm a fairly decent modder.
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Post » Sun May 01, 2011 9:37 pm

It's illegal and since it is illegal, we just don't discuss it here. Sorry.
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Post » Sun May 01, 2011 1:02 pm

But moving on... I know there is alot of things that's morally incorrect about piracy, but isn't it hipocritical to prohibit it? Since what really gives people the right to mind someone else's business, when it does not affect them, and please don't use something far-fetched like "piracy affects all of us"

That's a rather silly thing to say on the official forum of a game developer, piracy do affect all parts of the company as people need to buy it's products for the company to stay alive and pay the salary to all it's employees.
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