Do you think piracy should be legal?

Do you think piracy should be illigal

  • yes it should be allowed

    Votes: 12 41.4%

  • no it shouln't be allowed

    Votes: 17 58.6%
  • Total voters
    29

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    Do you think piracy should be illigal???
     
    Yes.
    Pirates sell games that aren't theirs, and the hackers(not AR) get not a cent from it.
    not only that, but it is probably why nintendo made hacking illegal.
    but i'm only assuming that you are talking about cartridge piracy because there is a lot more piracy, such as movie piracy.
    thats my view on piracy.
     
    Yes, anyone who pirates games/DVD's is just sad. It proves they're desperate enough to create "copies" of disks. And they people who buy them are also sad because they don't know they're buying.

    Piraters, there's an invention called MONEY. If they had it, they wouldn't create pirated verisons of DVD's/games (I think they use other people's disks and then pirate them)
     
    Piracy already is illegal.
    If you pirate anything that has TERMS OF AGREEMENT written on it or anything like that, yeah, you're breaking the law.
    But that doesn't mean that people won't stop pirating. Look at torrents. They majority of them are pirated wares. Though it's illegal, it's not going to stop. :|
     
    *~Sweet Dawn~* said:
    Yes, anyone who pirates games/DVD's is just sad. It proves they're desperate enough to create "copies" of disks. And they people who buy them are also sad because they don't know they're buying.

    Piraters, there's an invention called MONEY. If they had it, they wouldn't create pirated verisons of DVD's/games (I think they use other people's disks and then pirate them)
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    A "copy" of a disc is exactly the same digitally as a retail copy, absolutely no difference at all. I don't see how it's sad as such, those who can will. Money is just feeding the corporations some more, they really don't miss it all that much honestly, if they wanted to stop piracy they'd have to stop broadcasting and creating shows, games and movies. Otherwise piracy cannot be stopped.

    I personally don't see it as being a terrible thing, nowhere near as bad as stealing as it were, copying something simply creates an identicle copy.
     
    Why should I have to pay for something someone put allot of hard work in to?

    It has to...No MUST stay illegal.
     
    *~Sweet Dawn~* said:
    Yes, anyone who pirates games/DVD's is just sad. It proves they're desperate enough to create "copies" of disks. And they people who buy them are also sad because they don't know they're buying.
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    Wow, your argument makes absolutely no sense. Why must one be "desperate" to create copies of a disc? Of course people know what they are buying, they're buying an identical copy of the original.

    *~Sweet Dawn~* said:
    Piraters, there's an invention called MONEY. If they had it, they wouldn't create pirated verisons of DVD's/games (I think they use other people's disks and then pirate them)
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    Isn't that the entire point, if everybody had the money to buy as many non-pirated DVDs and games as they wanted then they would, but they don't. I don't think the problem lies with the pirates themselves, and your non-sensical ramblings about "INVENTIONS CALLED MONEY" and "wow your desperate to copy discs" isn't solving the root cause of the problem.

    I believe that the reason there are pirated DVDs and games is because the games and DVDs are overpriced in the first place. If pirates can sell them at a lower price and make money off of it, then obviously the industries that price and produce these goods in the first place could lower the price of it. If they lowered the price of DVDs and games, then there would no longer be a market for pirated discs and the industries would gain more money.

    Attacking the suppliers makes no difference at all - whilst there is a market for it, and due to the ease of copying DVDs and games with the digital age we're living in now, it doesn't matter how many suppliers they arrest, how many copied discs they confiscate, because new suppliers will continue to spring up.
     
    I thought it WAS illegeal
     
    Yeah... I don't see too much point in arguing this either.

    If it's against the law, it's against the law. People are still going to do it either way, however.
    It's like the whole deal with the tags on mattresses. It says, "Do not remove under penalty of law." But seriously, who doesn't remove it? It's a law, but it's loosely enforced.
     
    I'm very against pirated videos.

    People put a lot of work into making Videos and CDs and they deserve to be recognized for it. It costs money, get over it. I only do whats just and fair (call me idealistic).
     
    No Piracy should not be illegal. Being a pirate is one of the most holiest of callings, as made clear by the teachings of the great and oh-so-noodly FSM. YARR!

    But seriously, of course it should be illegal. It is stealing someone else's work.
     
    Here it's illegal.
    But everyone is downloading music and games all the time.
    Like, we are allowed to download a music/game/whatever and keep at our computers for 24 hours, and then delete them.
    But it's not like some federal cop is going to knock randomly at my door and ask to see my archives.
     
    Illegal or not, people will still do it. Thus I don't really care whether it's illegal or not... but it is best being illegal to discourage the the innocent and protect the retarded.
     
    Of course it should be illegal, here's the way it works: You create something to make money from, you use the money to buy something someone else created. The cycle keeps going, you take the motivation of money out, you can steal whatever you want, nobody creates anything, the whole thing falls apart.
     
    I say that piracy should be illegal. People put a lot of hard work into those CD's and or DVD's so, anyone who pirates them is just sad.
     
    Since I live in a developing country, many people here cannot afford to purchase originals. I can't say it's the best thing ever, but piracy has been a help to us in some ways.
     
    Thanks to the unlimited power that is the internet, I don't see piracy going away. EVER.

    That being said, sometimes you WILL pirate other people's ideas for mutual benefit. For example, you could steal somebody else's programming code, tweak it, and then release a better program.
     
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