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03-18-2006, 06:06 PM
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As a rule of thumb, I always download and only buy when I think it's worth buying. A lot of the crap out there these days isn't worth my money in the first place. I happily download a major game, I have over 10.000 dollars of illegal software on DVD's and stuff (bite me FBI) and huge ammounts of music. But if I think something is worth buying, then I do buy it.

Fact is, games, movies, music, it's all bloody expensive and people have better ways to spend their money. Why pay for something if you can get it for free or at least cheaper? So what it's illegal? No one is going to care. You won't have the police on your doorstep for downloading a few movies, unless your stupid enough to openly admit on a forum that you have over 5000 movies on your computer where everyone with a bit of hacking skill can track it down and bust you for it.

Even if prices went way down, I don't think people would buy a CD sooner then downloading it. I can get the latest album from bitcomet in 10 minutes opposed to the 30 minutes it will take me to pick it up at a store and waste money on it.

Piracy can't be stopped, it's way to big and EVERYONE does it. Not just a selected group of people, EVERYONE! Even the people who claim to fight against it have illegal songs on their computer. Piracy can't be checked, it can't be tracked and if you were to go punnish everyone for downloading a few songs, prisons would overcrowd.

And don't forget that publishers are acting on this as well. They still make millions, so it's not their bussiness complaining about anything here. They only raise prices because they see an opritunity: We can raise prices and pin it on piracy, while we actualy don't make that much of a loss of it but people will believe it anyway.

So there you have it. Oh, and some propeganda from me:

NEVER EVER buy games from EA. ALWAYS, UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCE!!! DOWNLOAD EA GAMES!

There, I'm done.
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