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[QUOTE="Nightflash28"]It's incredible how some of your guys are bending the truth to justify piracy. "It's not theft by definition". Maybe that statement is true, but that doesn't matter. Tell that to yourself to feel better. So there is this incredibly talented artist, right? He dedicates his life to painting amazing works of art which he intents to sell for money to sustain his living. That's the only thing he does.. And his paintings just frigging rock! Superior quality stuff! So he puts his paintings up to dry, expecting to sell them soon. While he sleeps, this other dude sneaks into his house and makes pictures of all the paintings, and the next morning, he just hands out free copies of them on the street. People take those prints, take them home and put them up on their wall. It's not stealing, right? The original paintings are still there! Other people can still buy them, no? But why should they, when the guy on the corner is giving out free copies! The original painter never sees a cent for his days, weeks and month of the work into which he put his heart and soul. He goes broke, loses his house and there's no happy ending for that guy. Now tell me again that this is fair. Nightflash28
another bad analogy. this is reality and we're dealing with the gaming industry here.
by your logic, activision and every other game developer should now be bankrupt.
How would they be bankrupt? Given that they wouldn't sell the original "paintings" but copies of course, I don't see how this analogy is far off. And let's not just talk major corporations, this is affecting indie devs just as much.
THe orignal painter in this case can be seen as a gaming developer. most gaming developers sell hundreds of thousands or millions of games.
'The original painter never sees a cent', but in reality, game developers make at least a cent with their games. eg, blizzard and starcraft 2, nintendo and super mario galaxy.
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