Pretty much, downloading stuff at worst will annoy an ISP. Distributing is the actionable conduct, but most companies don't want to deal with the legal cases, so they are content with cease and desists.
As long as it is not on the first four or so pages on a google search, that is enough to deter the overwhelming majority of people from pirating.
This, it's copyright infringement. The only reason anyone calls it theft is because most of the people arguing about this shit are midwits with limited vocabulary and understanding.
With movie tickets, you're assigned a seat for the duration of a movie, that's the contract you accepted, you also have rules concerning that seat, like not destroying it, setting it on fire, etc...
The movie equivalent would be you're being sold a ticket that says "you can use this seat forever*, however you like** :^)***"
* or until we don't want you in our theater anymore
** you can't share your seat when you're not using it, you can't change anything about the seat, can't dye the fabric
*** if we stop existing, the seat will also stop existing.
yeah but mr rogers got congress to make it legal to record tv shows with your vcr. how did we go from that to tvs having drm built into them so you can't record the netflix that you paid for?
Owning video games isn't important to me. They're not investment, they're entertainment (which I don't pay for unless it's absolutely necessary). I never resell anything I buy, the point of owning something is to have it, not to get rid of it.
>video game gets update years later >it's called a remaster >this isn't thievery according to some chuckle fricks
you didn't even do any real work you didn't even change the cutscenes
You're doing mental gymnastics to try and justify your actions. You're either poor, just don't want to spend the money or both. Either way you know what you're doing is wrong and you do it anyway
Don't come to the rest of us looking for some kind of absolution
Games as a service is abhorrent. Pirating was only questionable before this shitshow now its mandatory. I downloaded as many cracks as i could for games I bought and have about 10 tb of games on SSDs. Im not going to lose books out of my library because some author decideds he doesnt want to meaninglessly update the foreword anymore.
Lmao. Is that why car manufacturers are going to features as a service? Because people were downloading copies of BMWs you stupid homosexual? Its greed. I hope a hamas rocket takes out your family.
>all these zoomer homosexuals defending games as a service
Dead board dedicated to a dead industry selling loicesenses to braindead mutts. I might be upset if there had been a good game released in the last decade but its all "well its at least better than spooning shit from my ass on to my face". Rip
arguments for piracy:
1) it preserves the game
2) it allows poorgays who were never gonna buy a game play it
3) more people are able to play a game, which spreads positive word of mouth about it if the game is good i.e. free marketing
4) it encourages publishers to release good games that gamers won't feel cheated to buy to support them, because if the game is shit then why not just pirate it or not waste money on it at all?
arguments against piracy:
1) the publisher loses revenue that they never had to begin with because pirates would have never bought your shitty game if they couldn't pirate it (unless it's good but they wouldn't know because they didn't have the chance to play it)
Even paying for a physical copy no longer means you own it. Did you see Sony saying you can't resell something that you bought and is supposedly yours?
It's not stealing either way. It's copyright infringement.
This. It's basically bootlegging. It also has significantly more severe sentencing if you are brought to court over it.
It's also not a crime if it's non-commercial.
Pretty much, downloading stuff at worst will annoy an ISP. Distributing is the actionable conduct, but most companies don't want to deal with the legal cases, so they are content with cease and desists.
As long as it is not on the first four or so pages on a google search, that is enough to deter the overwhelming majority of people from pirating.
>Distributing is the actionable conduct
ohhh so that's why they hate torrenting
This, it's copyright infringement. The only reason anyone calls it theft is because most of the people arguing about this shit are midwits with limited vocabulary and understanding.
But it's not. I'm not making any money from downloading or seeding the torrent.
It actually doesn't even matter if it's stealing or not. If I wanna pirate, I'm gonna pirate. No one can do shit to stop me.
>what do you MEAN I don't own the theater when I paid for a ticket
With movie tickets, you're assigned a seat for the duration of a movie, that's the contract you accepted, you also have rules concerning that seat, like not destroying it, setting it on fire, etc...
The movie equivalent would be you're being sold a ticket that says "you can use this seat forever*, however you like** :^)***"
* or until we don't want you in our theater anymore
** you can't share your seat when you're not using it, you can't change anything about the seat, can't dye the fabric
*** if we stop existing, the seat will also stop existing.
I'm entitled to the game. If companies don't want my money so I can own the game, I am morally in the right to pirate their games.
Same applies with video. Owning a DVD doesn't mean you own the movie, just the license to play it at home. This is nothing new.
yeah but mr rogers got congress to make it legal to record tv shows with your vcr. how did we go from that to tvs having drm built into them so you can't record the netflix that you paid for?
>then
pirating isn't stealing regardless of ownership
Owning video games isn't important to me. They're not investment, they're entertainment (which I don't pay for unless it's absolutely necessary). I never resell anything I buy, the point of owning something is to have it, not to get rid of it.
it's legal to transfer the ownership of the license
>video game gets update years later
>it's called a remaster
>this isn't thievery according to some chuckle fricks
you didn't even do any real work you didn't even change the cutscenes
You're doing mental gymnastics to try and justify your actions. You're either poor, just don't want to spend the money or both. Either way you know what you're doing is wrong and you do it anyway
Don't come to the rest of us looking for some kind of absolution
come back when they take away your games and movies and try to not cry like a b***h
You come back once you're in prison. Tell us about your boyfriend Tyrone and how he made you feel special
>projects his homosexual feelings and fetishes onto others
sad to see corporate worship is all the same
Oh no did the big bad corporations make you feel sad?
talking like a baby just immediately proves you are a moron and a homosexual
why did you even reply
Games as a service is abhorrent. Pirating was only questionable before this shitshow now its mandatory. I downloaded as many cracks as i could for games I bought and have about 10 tb of games on SSDs. Im not going to lose books out of my library because some author decideds he doesnt want to meaninglessly update the foreword anymore.
Games as a service was a direct response to piracy. If they were going to lose sales then they were damn sure they were going to get money somehow
You did this to yourselves
no it wasn't. that shit would have happened regardless.
Lmao. Is that why car manufacturers are going to features as a service? Because people were downloading copies of BMWs you stupid homosexual? Its greed. I hope a hamas rocket takes out your family.
Piracy has always been a tiny ignorable loss. Its an excuse used to justify control-freaking games through company-side servers, not the reason
You can steal loaner cars moron.
Typical pirate cuck trying to justify their Black persony and poor homosexualry
so you admit you cant 'buy' videogames, only loan them?
>taking a rental car without payment isn't stealing
>"""steal""" 1000000 copies
>dev doesn't go bankrupt
am i missing something?
>"""steal""" 1000000 copies
>dev is charged $10000
Unity is based?
>all these zoomer homosexuals defending games as a service
Dead board dedicated to a dead industry selling loicesenses to braindead mutts. I might be upset if there had been a good game released in the last decade but its all "well its at least better than spooning shit from my ass on to my face". Rip
arguments for piracy:
1) it preserves the game
2) it allows poorgays who were never gonna buy a game play it
3) more people are able to play a game, which spreads positive word of mouth about it if the game is good i.e. free marketing
4) it encourages publishers to release good games that gamers won't feel cheated to buy to support them, because if the game is shit then why not just pirate it or not waste money on it at all?
arguments against piracy:
1) the publisher loses revenue that they never had to begin with because pirates would have never bought your shitty game if they couldn't pirate it (unless it's good but they wouldn't know because they didn't have the chance to play it)
>paying is not owning
This is only an issue for zoomer digitalcucks
Even paying for a physical copy no longer means you own it. Did you see Sony saying you can't resell something that you bought and is supposedly yours?