I jut got a Notice of Copyright Infringement Email

[Melf]

You do realize that philosophy keeps companys from going bankrupt, right?

So um... what's a corporation supposed to do if it dosen't make money?

Really confused here, curse EA for making money and stopping people from stealing their software

But of course people will say whatever just for a chance to come down on "teh evil" EA, if he was taking something like Katamari Damacy he would be "OMG EVIL"

Word. It's a simple equation.

Pirate instead of sales= no money from sales=no money for game development=no more games= nothing for you to pirate.

I don't see why that's so hard to understand.

[Jetman]

Well, not all of us are Uncle Scrooging it in the big bucks right now, so until that day comes for me I pirate. Once I got some money in my pocket again Ill have no need to,but until then I have to make due.Going without is not an option Brisco.

[Jeremy]

Oh bullshit. Video games and other electronic media are NOT necessities in life. It's easy to justify stealing food and water since they're sort of needed to live, but games and other things are merely luxuries. If you haven't got the money, that doesn't give you the right to steal it and eventually make those who DO have the money pay more for it.

[mollipen]

I agree.

Hey -- I understand why people pirate: it's cuz they're either poor or don't feel whatever it is they're pirating is worth the money. My advice is to do what people did back in they day: do without the thing you can't afford or don't feel is worth your goddamned money, you cheap fucks.

You can't tell this to people these days, because they think that whatever they want, they deserve to get.

[cka]

hahahaha, busted downloading the sims

what's more embarassing, getting caught or getting caught downloading that?!

p.s. my isp gets email like that all the fucking time but they just discard it.

[The_Meach]

I think I would rather be called a criminal than a greedy multinational corporation.

Brilliant!

[James]

Just to clarify my above post- I've got no problem with EA protecting their games and going after people pirating it. I blame the lack of clarity on today being a lazy day off for me, of the kind I don't get too often. Mmm... lazy...

However-

So um... what's a corporation supposed to do if it dosen't make money?

Nothing wrong with making money at all, but the line you're misquoting is "make money above all else". Without the second half of the phrase you've missed the entire point.

James

[Jetman]

Oh bullshit. Video games and other electronic media are NOT necessities in life.

It's easy to justify stealing food and water since they're sort of needed to live, but games and other things are merely luxuries. If you haven't got the money, that doesn't give you the right to steal it and eventually make those who DO have the money pay more for it.

Well, thats easy to say when you have the money in your pockets.

And I'm not stealing - Im sharing and being shared to

[Mman]

Just to clarify my above post- I've got no problem with EA protecting their games and going after people pirating it. I blame the lack of clarity on today being a lazy day off for me, of the kind I don't get too often. Mmm... lazy...

However-



Nothing wrong with making money at all, but the line you're misquoting is "make money above all else". Without the second half of the phrase you've missed the entire point.

James

Thankyou. I don't believe that he has the right to download video games, whether EA or by any other company. I myself have never downloaded new video games (yeah, ive downloaded old roms and pc games).

And Yoshi...have you never heard of hyperbole? I mean, people didnt seem to mind it when Seinfeld had a soup nazi.

[arjue]

WHATS A HYPERBOWL?

I think that if a game I wanted wouldn't let me install it because I have burning software, I would have absolutely no problem stealing and cracking it.