[QUOTE="ActicEdge"][QUOTE="alextherussian"]Haha I love reading about this stuff. Im currently in a country where you cant find NON pirated DVDs if you tried. You may be able to find an occasional store that sells a legitimate PS3 game but theres your ceiling. I dont even mean in the its some market or something, the most expensive mall by the Hilton that sells Armani Jackets and several karat Jewelry has a nice big store for the newest Movies, Games and Music.
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People have such a high horse about this issue and yet such a limited view as to its implications out side of their little bubble. This man did wrong but do you honestly think this is a fair punishment in a country were Charlee Sheen gets away with snorting coke of a prostitute, trying to beat her up and destroying a hotel room with a warning?
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Whats even funnier is that I would but my bank account on that 90% of the people on this board have downloaded illegal games, movies and music. Im on my last term of Uni in Canada (in a business school that is in the worlds top 25) and the first thing you are recommended to download when going into first year is DC++. Get the newest of anything in a second, literally youd dl movies in 5 min tops. Mad dun goofed, but dont all start playing high and mighty looking down and spitting on him thinking that the average, even amongst yourself is any better (well in dl'ing anyway, not a comment on his selling of said goods which is really why this is such an issue at all)alextherussian
You go to Western, so do I :P and I have DC++ as well and you are indeed right, first year student, first thing I was told to download is DC++. Everyone on campus has it. We get 10 gigs of downloading a day, I was having a discussion about this with people as to whether this is actually legal since most of the universites I know of in Ontario all have these downloading services. I know Mac has it.
Super Mario Galaxy, Fallout, ME, Black Ops, everything is there if you want to download it. Tbh, I certainly was uneasy when I literally saw the amount of people who had these games up for dl. since that clearly is not legal. (and no, I haven't dl'd any games)
Not just Mac. Quite literally every big campus in the country has it (or Shakespear which is equivalent). From UBC and UVic till whatever that Uni in Nova Scotia is called (University of Nova Scotia I think). To the best of my knowledge the reason this system survives is because it falls under sharing and was originally intended as just a massive Dropbox like thing. And Western is awesome, shall be sorely missed. Well I know most universities have it but I used mac simply because I have personal experience with that said university (a sibling went there). I actually am curious to this now however, I don't know enough about the sharing and dl'ing side of the law to give any competent response but you'd think given the fact that these companies are all going after used games, they might find a huge problem with university students just downloading all their games openly.
Western is quite the school I must admit, enjoying the first year greatly.
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