What's this? Manco playing the mediator? Time to wrap up and be friends again?
NOPE
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By the way, I was not the one who mentioned any kind of stocks to begin with.
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Don't defend a point of view and then try to make out that you were speaking on behalf of someone else. Either you care about it or you don't.
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So if somebody bought a game, and the disc got damaged, so he downloaded it illegally, he stole?
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Yeah. I'm not entitled to an ebook just because I dropped my paperback in the sink.
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I hate that some of you generalize piracy to just stealing.
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"I hate that you call this thing what it actually is rather than a more ambiguous term that I can hide behind"
The very fact that you pirate something infers that you
know you might not want to pay for it. The only reason why you'd pirate something is
because you don't want to pay for it. Regardless of whether you just don't want to pay for it now, or you never want to pay for it, the fact that you wouldn't put the money down upfront quite obviously betrays your intention of
not paying for it if you don't feel like it.
And sure, a lot of the time you will feel like paying for it, so you will pay for it, and no harm is done. But it's not about whether you
feel like paying for stuff; the problem is that you think paying for a commercial product is optional.
"I could steal all of this stuff, but I'm feeling good today, so I guess I'll pay the bare minimum instead. I'm so generous."
What mindset can you call that, other than that of a thief?
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As Manco implied, popular opinion is a bit "too far gone" for the man in the street to start feeling like paying for the stuff he takes is actually mandatory again. To achieve any practical change, we'll just have to try and make paying for media seem like a really hip, responsible, admirable thing so that only NERDS pirate video games. People will basically pay out of peer pressure, but in principle, they should be doing it anyway.