- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Posted by: Sargey
<rant mode on>
Anyone else notice how when a big game (Halo2 Doom3 HL2) get pirated, everyone goes mad and its headline news everywhere.
You never see any headlines for the rest of the time when the other software companies get their software pirated.
To all the people who have posted on here saying that piracy is bad and people should be tracked down, I have a few questions for you......
How many of you have recorded a movie from the tv onto a video tape?
How many of you recorded a cd onto an audio cassette?
How many of you have downloaded an mp3 onto your pc without paying for it?
How many of you have a copied cd in your collection?
How many of you have borrowed a piece of software from a friend and installed it on your machine?
All the above are acts of piracy. Fair enough, you haven't stolen possibly the biggest game of the year, but nevertheless, you have commited an act of piracy.
I'm not condoning the theft, I think its a shame, but stop going on about piracy as if you have never done it yourselves.
(and if anyone replies and says they have never committed an act of piracy, shut up. I don't believe you)
<rant mode off>
Just my 2 cents. :D
SHUT UP SARGEY!!! All of these things i am sure we all have done. However all of your points are wrong. Copying a cd onto a casette or another CD is ok for your own personal use. Recording stuff off of the TV is legal, borowing a game from a freind is fine, as long as you dont make an extra copy for yourself, and downloading a song is OK for all of us canadians, it is meerly a way to try before you buy. If you like a band's music, go buy it.
Despite that it that doesn't mean that what we listened to or saw was on whole month before the intended release date (of a game the developers were maticuliously careful not to release spoilers for)! I think that we all are upset at the fact that now we will have to avoid any place that possibly could have spoilers, but they alre the same places that give us the legal info on the game (really who doesn't want to know more about Halo 2 unless it spoils the single player story). this final month forums are going to be packed with discussions about Halo 2 but us hard core fans now because of some stinkin pirates has taken that away (I flew all the way to europe just to play zanzibar) and now some jerk who deserves a pineapple up his @$$ ruins that.
I am a pirate but i won't stoop to the levels some are (a pirate's code of sorts) and those who are caught should get fined $100,000 there are more than enough people who would gladly pay that to get a legal copy of Halo 2 just one month before release date, but none of those people would pirate the game, we are the true Halo 2 fans and anyone who ruins the game for us will severly pay
reporting for duity
Cyberg4