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Originally Posted by The Warlock
As I said, to piss them off.
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A.K.A. Troll. Period. If Pissing people off gets you off, good for you. Just go away.
Faaaaaar Away.
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Originally Posted by The Warlock
As I said, to piss them off.
You are completely and utterly full of shit. If you have no intention of paying for something, why do you want it in the first place? You're just trying to justify stealing to yourself. If you wouldn't buy it, don't try to get it. In your 'copying' theory, you're copying it so you still get it but don't have to pay for it. If you want it, pay for it. If you get it without paying for it you're depriving the creator of a sale.
You get something without paying for it, you're stealing. I'm sure you play your pirated games thinking 'I would never pay for this,' but you still play it. You know why you'd never pay for it? Because you've gotten away with stealing it. I'm sure you'd do the same thing with stealing games off of the store shelf if you could get away with it.
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Hmmm. Lets see. What if i can't affort it, having to pay for food, living, etc... first. Would you spend
thousands of dollars for a 3D modelling program if you just want to try it, and perhaps learn how to use it. I don't make that much surplus cash in a year. I am not producing content for anyone else, selling things I make with it, or anything like that, just teaching myself for my own personal betterment. How is that depriving the creator of a sale, if I
could and would not buy the program anyways.
Also,
Downloading (not sharing)
Legally defined as stealing, but rather copyright violation. Personally, with what little filesharing i do i only share things that are legal to share (unlicensed anime).
Not to be horridly impolite, but In any case, what is up with you? I know some people are irate, but you seem to go to excess. In any case, you should probably know that much of the information published about the "damaging" effects of filesharing
massively inflates the ammount of damage that it actually causes (the companies that published all the statistics has been publically crucified for overlooking massive ammounts of information). You shouldn't believe everything you read. Not that there isn't any damage, but it is much less than most people, particularly including you, seem to believe.
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Originally Posted by The Warlock
What are you doing besides standing there with your hand out, jumping up and down and saying "But I really want it!" when someone refuses to give you free stuff? Huh?
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I can honestly say i have
never done that. Have you?
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Originally Posted by Snowglare
By counterfeiting items, you're depriving someone of a potential sale. Rent a movie and want to see it again? Buy it. Check a book out and want to read it without a deadline? Buy it. Not even libraries give stuff away. In the normal world, free stuff tends to be worth what it costs. In the online, it's-free-if-I-can-get-it-for-free world, free stuff is often as good as anything you can buy. Games ripped straight from the CD. DVD-quality movies. Porn, porn, and more porn. If you couldn't get these things for free, if it wasn't so easy to counterfeit them, we'd all have no choice but to buy or steal a legitimate copy.
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Ah, but my point is that i pretty much only download things where there is
no potential sale. If i couldn't download it, i would do without. For example, If i couldn't download pr0n free, i would just do with my imagination. In any case, if i download something and really end up liking it, i typically
do wind up buying it.
In any case, i agree with deleting the whole thread, and dontino.