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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.
Yeah. I'm not entitled to an ebook just because I dropped my paperback in the sink.
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Why not?
I've already supported the maker with my money, and he doesn't lose his money making another copy. Your no arguments are shitty arguments. Also, digital stocks really have a bearing on this discussion after all.
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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"
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I don't need to hide behind it, I rarely pirated any games, and I pretty much stopped doing that a long time ago, I just think some people have stupid or no arguments against it.
Also, there was a word for a person who ignores other person's arguments because of the other person's profession/membership/other. I don't remember the word, I'm pretty sure some of you mentioned it frequently at OWF. I think that word applies to MM.
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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.
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You are blinded, do you? You completely ignored the case where somebody
paid for it.
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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.
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The problem (one of them, at least) is not buying things I don't really want to, but I was manipulated by publisher's marketing/game footage (some games look cool and play tragic)/not very honest reviews etc.
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"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."
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That's low, and you should already know that I don't see that in such categories.
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What mindset can you call that, other than that of a thief?
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You showed some statements without proving some of them right. What mindset can you call that, other than a shitty, prejudiced debater?
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As a group who actively strip out DRM and anti-piracy measures and then allow people to download the game for free, I’d say they’re probably unlikely to be in the moral high ground here. Makes the moral argument in favor a bit less secure if you ask me.
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Some of the people who does that feel like they're in the moral high ground, and there are many people who support it because of the DRM policy. DRM was the reason Spore was so pirated on PC, many people who bought it decided to pirate it instead and play without the DRM. There were many people who decided not to buy the game to protest and not to give milions of dollars to big companies so they waste it for something like that. Even if they liked the game.
I'm pretty much done with the debate.