Is piracy really that bad of a crime?

you can if you know where to look. ;)
as long as ive got the final fantasy games they will always be available

scarab12now even al the final fantasy roms are unable to download!
even the SNES final fantasy 2(i mean come on!)
first the NDS roms and now the final fantasy roms
soon enough we cant download anything

you're at a game website im sure there's atleast 100 people here who have all the final fantasy games NES-PS2. i know Stanley Richards created a post that has the ones for the gba already.as for the no LAN option in Starcraft 2 im sure it wasnt just activision who wanted it that way, a few games have already given up on LAN to prevent piracy. its a shame though.. i wont buy it now knowing for a fact that there's no LAN. since the only reason why i even bought half my games it to play them LAN with a buddy

LoonylionI wouldnt necessarily cut out the retail stores, but I would agree with cutting out the huge publishing companies, as they get most of the profits even they do very little to produce the game. Each development company should have their own publishing department.

Too expensive; indie developers won't be able to meet the costs. Not to mention publishing also includes a lot of the hype and advertising, something that a small development company simply cannot do. It's part of the reason why stuff published by Activision gets so hyped - Kotick has the resources to do all that shit.Loony is right about piracy not actually being stealing. It's not, but under most countries' laws it is a punishable breach of copyright which by precedent tends to ludicrous amounts being asked for in reparations.Thing is, the whole piracy thing as well as second-hand copies of games are considered to be "robbing" the developers (from their point of view). Hence patches, updates and DLC that costs money. It's just more ways to milk cash out of franchises. This is why I'm actually liking Valve a lot - I play a lot of TF2, and all the updates are free because we've ALREADY BOUGHT THE GAME. What a novel concept.

I have a question, what is the punishment for pirating?
Does Nintendo sue the person that made the download?

very large fines for downloaders. We'd get insanely large fines and quite probably a jail sentence because of distributing the material.

just a question, which the answer could be serious....if romU gets shut-down, you all ain't gonna give the ESA our IP address, right?

no

Tomoka · #26just a question, which the answer could be serious....if romU gets shut-down, you all ain't gonna give the ESA our IP address, right?

hahahano but they are gonna feed your sig bunny to a polar beardo you think they'd go through millions of IP addresses just to get you for downloading pokemon yellow? they're more worried about the people who upload/distribute the romspiracy isnt a crime its a form of free rights!!! the right to say Funk you and you're $50 cost :D

I will answer the question with another question: Is gold TRULY valuable?

Most I.P addresses change whenever you reset your modem anyways.

Piracy is not bad

usernameladiesman217 · #30Most I.P addresses change whenever you reset your modem anyways.

depends on your ISP. Mine never changes.

allkratosI think that kind of action will make piracy bigger than before. In the end , people will pirate the game and play it on hosted servers. FAIL BLIZZARD YOU FAIL.
NO LAN?REGION LOCKED? The only excuse you can give us?Piracy.

Ubisoft does the same thing now. Assasins Creed 2 on the PC and several other titles need Interent to just play the Campaign part of the game! This pisses off many people but yet again, hackers were able to bypass the DRM (on the Installation) on the game. And maybe they got rid of the stupid "Interent to play" part.

Activision can SUCK IT.Oh yeah, and so can Adobe. Charging $600+ for products that barely anyone takes seriously? Fail.That's why I pirate.

garychencool · #33Ubisoft does the same thing now. Assasins Creed 2 on the PC and several other titles need Interent to just play the Campaign part of the game! This pisses off many people but yet again, hackers were able to bypass the DRM (on the Installation) on the game. And maybe they got rid of the stupid "Interent to play" part.

They found a way 1 month after the game was released. This doesn't get rid of the DRM, it just goes around it. But at least you can play the game without the absurd internet connection thing.

You guys are right. It's not piracy.It's a breach of copyright law.

I suppose you can compare it to an old Texas law. Consider that cattle was a man's livelihood a hundred or so years ago (horses too).
By stealing his livestock, you were effectively stealing his income, more or less leaving him to die. That's why cattle and horse theives used to hang for theft of that sort.
Similarly (though not punished in the same way), video game designers, producers, etc. make their living off of their games. By stealing the game, they earn less money; stealing their livelihood (sorry it I'm spelling bad).
Small amounts of theft don't effect their revenue that much but it's a little different when there are thousands of people participating.
So where is the line between a bad crime and a "really bad" crime?

well....i got over 200 games on my MSD that i never purchased....where's that rank?! ::)

Irili · #37I suppose you can compare it to an old Texas law. Consider that cattle was a man's livelihood a hundred or so years ago (horses too).
By stealing his livestock, you were effectively stealing his income, more or less leaving him to die. That's why cattle and horse theives used to hang for theft of that sort.
Similarly (though not punished in the same way), video game designers, producers, etc. make their living off of their games. By stealing the game, they earn less money; stealing their livelihood (sorry it I'm spelling bad).
Small amounts of theft don't effect their revenue that much but it's a little different when there are thousands of people participating.
So where is the line between a bad crime and a "really bad" crime?

There is good and bad crime ;D The good trys the rom and buy it, the bad crime is try the rom and do nothing which is me ;D

Tomoka · #38well....i got over 200 games on my MSD that i never purchased....where's that rank?! ::)

Replying to #39

so then i'm also bad crime! oh well, doesn't matter, i've had felonies.... (yes, i am only 15, and have had 22 felonies....assault....)