Piracy - is it a dirty word?

[Stefan9]

I can't figure out if Raven is just trying to troll us.

Look at this:



Do you really not realise that the reason Ubi DRM, SC2 with no LAN etc. exists is because you pirate the games? If noone had ever pirated games, DRM would not exist. You claim to pirate games because of restrictive DRM, but restrictive DRM exists because you pirate games. Your argument is circular (read: stupid).

Come on now Raven, just be honest. If those Ubi games had no DRM whatsoever, you still would have pirated them; are you really going to try and pretend otherwise? Your one and only motivation is not paying for something you can get for free without consequence, everything else is just fluff and rationalisation. It's the same thing I said in the article - if you're going to pirate, at least be honest about your reasons.

DRM is just a convenient excuse for pirates, they have been pirating well before drm ever came about. Drm is just a way to keep the corporate suits happy, its a way for the developer/publisher to tell the shareholder they are trying. DRM doesn't harm the pirate it harms the legitimate paying customer.

Piracy is the reason we retrenched 55 people at our company in December. So congratulations, you are the reason that 55 bread winners cannot feed their families so you just fucked over 242(statistically) people.

Good going.

I seriously doubt piracy would be the only reason the company had to let go of 55 people.