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Originally Posted by PrBlahBlahtson
I'll admit I didn't download the torrent because seriously, who wants to download an entire torrent to just verify the data and delete it?
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It's around 400mb, which is too small even for a dummy-cut of a DVD game. Also the upload date is much too early for it to be anything but a trial version.
Just wanted to point out that there are a couple ways to figure it out without having to download the entire thing.
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Originally Posted by evilconsumer
I hate to say it, but isn't this forum based on theft to some degree?
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I personally do not consider piracy theft. It's a different thing involving misuse of intellectual property with its own separate laws. The worst being those who copy something and then try and sell it off (e.g. when the data for one of the pokemon games leaked and chinese pirates tried to sell it to impatient consumers before the game's official Japanese release).
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Originally Posted by evilconsumer
How many of the threads that contain images from comics, artworks, doujins, mangas, H-games actaully have permission to be posted here by their creators? Not very many....I know I'm guilty of it; posting things which I didn't have the creator's permission to post. Every doujin here is technically post without permission unless the creator themselves posted it.
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Ah, yes. A lot of Japanese artists do not like it when people take their illustrations and upload them to other website without attribution (The worst offender on this board being Sutibaru). The next worst offense is taking the illustrations and direct linking to them. The least being hosting the illustrations on your own server, but properly attributing to the artist according to their policy. Then again, most Japanese artists are particularly fussy about people linking to their sites, so one should also check to see if they have something called リンクフリー (link-free) on their site. E-mailing them and asking for permission is a sign of good netiquette (リンクしていいですか?), and not asking for permission is merely bad manners, not theft (unless you're profiting off it). I noticed that lot of Japanese internet users link by using hxxp or ttp so that a person has to copy and paste the link into their browser, so that the website owners won't find out who is linking to their site (I probably should do this too).
On a personal level, I pretty much find the artbooks, doujins and manga on this site worth downloading the digital copies even when I have the physical books since it's sometimes more convenient (I'm kind of glad yahoo is starting to sell digital manga, but I'm going to wait until they knock off the DRM crap before I plunk any money into it). Regardless of whether I paid for the originals, it's still technically an infringement of one's intellectual property. On the other hand, H-games aren't quite the same since both the CD/DVD or a CD Image lead to nearly the exact same experience, though I prefer using CD images so I don't wear out my DVD/CD drive (Which is why I also prefer games sold at download shops without DRM).