I really don't want to go into the discussion of piracy VS stealing VS wtf. This is merely to trot out the moral ground on the following. If you do need to feel to discuss piracy and stealing please rather make a new thread thereof.
Additionally fight clubs should be kept outside please.
Presented with a choice here:
1) Do not buy the game
2) Torrent the game.
3) Buy the game.
However choice 3 is not so simple as it is not released in your country yet. Now you can fake you way in, but that would still be wrong right?
What is driving your need to have the game... Should that not be the very first question you ask yourself? Obviously there are some games you can't just torrent and well have to go the legal route one way or the other to play it. These are obviously MMOs like TOR/WOW.
Haven gotten my key through something like g2play or a friend abroad, everyone was paid and no fraud was committed. This seems to be the ideal win win.
Now comes the more gray area. Looking at LA NOIRE on steam I had to get my key by using a vpn connection, dropping it and then paying as I would normally do. In essence only wrong I did was spoofing my IP. Next up comes Mark of the ninja and steam has gotten smarter. Now I have to flip my country to US and add a US code, rest of the detail is as it was.
However now I'm bordering on fraud... But how different would this be from my US Apple ID or my US and UK Live account. All three of them are on the same method.
Seems that if you take the high ground here you will go with option 1 or 2, but 2 no one gets payed and noted this was a guaranteed sale not for tryouts. If I go with 3 and fake my way in, I'm lying about my origin and billing, but still the developer got paid.
White lie much ?
I think I would feel more in the wrong in using a key sale place that just sells the key and you need to get the ISO. How would I know for sure that anyone got paid by using their services. For all I know they skimmed the keys. Option 3 then seems more likely to be good than bad...


The only benefit I can see is the on site warranty (which is a big thing when spending R78k on a laptop!)
