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[reddragon105]

Originally Posted by Jay_83

@ reddragon105

Totally disagree mate. If you don't think it's worth buying then you just don't buy it. It doesn't mean it's ok to do a copy of it!

What you're saying is no different than me going into a store, stealing some stock then later when pulled by security saying "I wasn't gonna buy them so they're not losing any money"

actually it is different. i was trying to point out that, while i don't condone piracy and i buy all the games i think are worth buying, there is a difference between stealing and piracy.
stealing a game would be going into a shop and taking a game without paying for it, hence taking money away from the shop (which is what you were talking about when you said.
piracy is making a copy of the game, so doesn't involve taking anything away from the shop.
so the companies don't lose money, they just lose potential earnings.

it is of course still theft, as the software is copyrighted and you have to pay for permission to use it, hence copyright theft. but they're not losing money over it, they're just not getting as much money as they would get if piracy was impossible and everyone had to buy the game if they wanted to play it.
which brings me back to the first thing i said - if i pirated a game it would be because its crap. well thats just a hypothetical situation because if i thought a game was crap i wouldnt bother pirating it, there would be no point. if i thought it was worth playing i'd buy it.
it's certainly wrong for someone to copy a game if they wanted to play it, and they play a pirated copy instead of buying a real copy. but my point is that they have NOT taken £35 away from the shop, they have prevented the shop from getting an extra £35 that they should have got because they should have bought the game.

see the difference?
i'm not saying piracy can be justified because it only prevents potential profits, i'm just saying there's a difference between preventing profit and taking money away.