Well, I'd never used thepiratecity.org. But I encourage you to visit it now. Moderators, before calling me out as spam, please visit it as well.See something? Not your typical torrent site, is it? That's right, it's gone. A lot of sites are gone now, and although I have no numbers to confirm it, I assume the numbers are growing. I wonder if this new problem is what helped spark the NDS rom's being taken off of this site, but since I don't know when that happened I can't make an assumption.As a long time pirate, I've always enjoyed the 'perks' of pirating. Even though most games I've bought (a lot thanks to the recent steam sale, I must confess), I still have the benefits of early releases, easier single player cheats, the ability to get games without leaving the house (only applicable for console pirating, as almost all PC games can be bought offline), but most importantly, pirating allowed my to play games without DRM. DRM is part of another rant I love to go on about, along with Net Neutrality. I'll save that for another time. But the point is, even with games I've purchased, I'd still go download the exact same game, or a crack made for playing the illegal copies, and use it so I could play my games in peace.So, naturally, this is terrifying to me. Why? BULLET POINT TIME
- You can be arrested or denied internet access after three ACCUSATIONS of copyright infringement. It dosen't have to be proven, and all access denial is strictly enforced.
- Police can literally come inside your house and seize your computer.
- Personally, and I might be over reacting, but I liken this to the PATRIOT act, except a LOT more people are affected by this. By a lot, I mean everyone with a computer hooked up to the internet.