Beware: making personal copies of games can get you sued

This means it is illegal (but not criminal) to rip your CDs to a file format such as MP3.
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So iTunes Match will now get us in trouble?

As with others I've also ripped most of my DVDs to my PC. It just makes more sense streaming them from my main PC than having to swap out DVDs.
 
Does this really affect people that much though? I would say literally about 98% of the games I bought in the last year were acquired digitally.

If you ask me, the DVD's days are numbered. It's just so much more convenient buying everything digitally.
 
Graal said:
Does this really affect people that much though? I would say literally about 98% of the games I bought in the last year were acquired digitally.

If you ask me, the DVD's days are numbered. It's just so much more convenient buying everything digitally.
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Digital, it never gets damaged lost or stolen (well unless your account is hacked)
 
OmegaFenix said:
Stream Netflix, BBC Iplayer, YouTube and a crap load of other steaming content sources (all HD). I use on average 200 to 300 gb a month. I dont pirate games or movies. I do download the odd latest episode of something like Falling Skies or Big Bang Theory but most of my data usage comes from other steaming media. Then you get to games on demand on Xbox live or PSN or even steam. I also keep my 3 gig dropbox open all the time and skype. So no a 20 - 30 GB cap robs you of a substantial chunk of what the net has to offer.
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Yes, but how many internet users do you think use the net the way users of Netflix, Steam etc do in SA? Not many I am sure (as a lot of internet users I know of, dont even know what a "browser" is??!?!?!? True story).

Anyway, by no means am I opposing digital downloads of anything. As a culprit, I cant. But, there's a lot of factors that influence the fact that piracy exists, or is possible.
 
symbolofmylife said:
Yes, but how many internet users do you think use the net the way users of Netflix, Steam etc do in SA? Not many I am sure (as a lot of internet users I know of, dont even know what a "browser" is??!?!?!? True story).

Anyway, by no means am I opposing digital downloads of anything. As a culprit, I cant. But, there's a lot of factors that influence the fact that piracy exists, or is possible.
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I kill anywhere between 30 and 50 gb on Steam/Origin alone on a monthly basis.
 
symbolofmylife said:
Yes, but how many internet users do you think use the net the way users of Netflix, Steam etc do in SA? Not many I am sure (as a lot of internet users I know of, dont even know what a "browser" is??!?!?!? True story).

Anyway, by no means am I opposing digital downloads of anything. As a culprit, I cant. But, there's a lot of factors that influence the fact that piracy exists, or is possible.
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A few decades ago some of them didn't know what a book was, and as big a fan as I am of letting the stupid die so we can use their corpses for compost, they where shown & educated and now most know at least what a book looks like even if they still cant read it.

So people dont have the speeds and capacity necessary for Netflix etc and instead of encouraging the improvement of infrastructure and capacity of South African internet you ask why people shouldn't have those caps?

Let me explain this using a pretty basic example: If the average South African Anime Fan wanted to watch Robotech and didn't have it on DVD or could not find a retailer in his/her region that sells it what would they do? They would pop onto Piratebay and start downloading. And that is exactly what I use to have to do, now since I have the speed and capacity I switch on Netflix and bob's your uncle I can watch every single episode of Robotech & the 2 (i think) movies of it.

My point is if SA had the infrastructure and capacity for services like this it could actually reduce piracy, yes there will always be those looters who will still pirate just because they dont want to pay the £6 p/m sub for netflix but streaming content sources like this could give those, who feel that their only option is to pirate another alternative.
 
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