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<blockquote data-quote="ProfessorCirno" data-source="post: 4915136" data-attributes="member: 65637">How would you prove that they're pirated?&nbsp; There's no way in hell I'm dragging all my books to a game when I can just bring my laptop with my pdfs.In some cases this is true, in some, not.&nbsp; I again call to mind my video game example.&nbsp; I'm primarily a PC gamer, but there's little to no modern day games that I enjoy.&nbsp; If a game comes out, I want to know if it's good or bad before I purchase it, but I have no way of knowing without pirating it - demos are almost nonexistant, the gaming media is a bad joke, and developers are more more often lying about their game and making false &quot;playtests&quot; to showcase it.&nbsp; This is especially aggravating when my budget doesn't allow for buying every game that starts to catch my eye.&nbsp; So my choices are to either gamble my money and hope the game doesn't turn out to be a turd (like most do), or grab a torrent and give it a test whirl before shelling out bucks to the game's producer to own an actual copy.And keep in mind, I'm not saying piracy is good.&nbsp; I know people in the gaming industry who have been hurt by it.What I'm saying is, it's not that simple.&nbsp; You can't just say everything is &quot;GOOD OR BAD&quot; or &quot;MORAL AND IMMORAL.&quot;At the risk of quoting from a movie that will possibly get me :|s...[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6A0GdR2LlKo]YouTube - Donnie Darko; Life Line[/ame]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="ProfessorCirno, post: 4915136, member: 65637"] How would you prove that they're pirated? There's no way in hell I'm dragging all my books to a game when I can just bring my laptop with my pdfs. In some cases this is true, in some, not. I again call to mind my video game example. I'm primarily a PC gamer, but there's little to no modern day games that I enjoy. If a game comes out, I want to know if it's good or bad before I purchase it, but I have [B]no way of knowing[/B] without pirating it - demos are almost nonexistant, the gaming media is a bad joke, and developers are more more often lying about their game and making false "playtests" to showcase it. This is especially aggravating when my budget doesn't allow for buying every game that starts to catch my eye. So my choices are to either gamble my money and hope the game doesn't turn out to be a turd (like most do), or grab a torrent and give it a test whirl before shelling out bucks to the game's producer to own an actual copy. And keep in mind, I'm not saying piracy is [I]good[/I]. I know people in the gaming industry who have been hurt by it. What I'm saying is, it's [I]not that simple[/I]. You can't just say everything is "GOOD OR BAD" or "MORAL AND IMMORAL." At the risk of quoting from a movie that will possibly get me :|s... [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6A0GdR2LlKo]YouTube - Donnie Darko; Life Line[/ame] [/QUOTE]

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