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[DABhand]

Originally Posted by omni555

DABhand, I can see much of what you are saying in this and your previous posts, but I am afraid that I cannot agree with you.

I have the ability to "pirate" almost EVERY game that I own - ues, I said OWN! - but I use this ability only to make things easier for me when I actually PLAY the game(s).

In the past, I have FREQUENTLY "pirated" copies of games when there was no good demo available, only to go out and BUY the retail copy when I saw that it was something that I would be wanting to continue to play. If the game was crap, I would simply destroy the "pirated" version and wave a fond "Bye-bye!" at the publisher!

There have been a NUMBER of games that, when the initially come out, are priced too high to make it practical for me to add to my collection. Usually, I wait either for them to drop down in price or to become available through the bargain bin or the "Pre-Owned" section of my local seller.

There ARE some lame-heads out there who just want to make a "game" out of getting whatever they can for nothing, and no matter WHAT anyone does, these people are ALWAYS going to find a way to GET what they want. They have a doggedness about them that makes it appear as a CHALLENGE to them personally when an "unbeatable" copy protection scheme is developed. Those people wouldn't buy a game if the games were FREE!!! They mostly enjoy the challenge of "getting one over" on the publishers, and THAT will never change.

The people I am referring to when I talk about lowering the prices to gain more PAYING customers are those who, like myself, don't see paying $40, $50, $60 and more for games that often come out buggy as hell and are often NOT what we anticipated. As I said earlier, I have MANY THOUSANDS of dollars worth of games within arms reach as I type this, and I know many OTHER people with similar collections - ALL bought and paid for with honestly earned money!

But getting back to the original topic, I firmly believe that copy protection is ONLY going to target those HONEST people who will be hurt by it in some way, and will NOT in ANY WAY affect those out there who are intent on getting "free" games to play.

As for who is laughing at whom, let me say THIS. The publishers are "laughing" at people like ME who would BUY and PAY FOR their games, and who are getting FRUSTRATED as all hell trying to get the game set up to run the way we WANT, but it is the REAL PIRATES who are sitting back laughing themselves SILLY at the PUBLISHERS for their lame attempts at making life harder for their TRUE CUSTOMERS while the PIRATES just take a few days longer and get what they want ANYWAY!

Well your one of the few that say this and do it, others use the same excuse to take away the fact they stole software bottom line.

Even if you do what you said you do, if no demo was available, you still stole the game.

Im not putting you down, far from it.

And yes at the end of the day its a business, they have to make money somehow.

But I disagree with you on the last paragraph, the people WHO are laughing is the CD-rw/DVD-rw manufacturers both media and hardware, they seen that kids with broadband are downloading illegally and seen the market for supplying the things to them for them to make copying profitable. Thats the biggest winners right there.