Svardskampe wrote:
Cygnus wrote:
It's not only illegal, for good reason, it's just very sad reading such self-justifying junk.
Please quote where you have read them, discuss them with proper arguments instead.
Cygnus wrote:
I hate having to have accounts, and be online to play, to have 0-level drivers like starforce and limited installs etc.
DRM=ineffective. Read argument in previous post.
In every forum where someone posts immature teenage 'arguments' that piracy is beneficial you read self-justifying junk.
Read your own posts. Self-justifying is arguing that something is right because YOU do it.
Piracy is wrong on principle. If you were never taught that stealing is wrong, or you have not managed to come to that conclusion yourself, then I can't help you.
It is impossible to request 'proper' arguments if you cannot accept the basic ethic that stealing is wrong and damaging in and of itself.
If a person does not accept that pirating games is stealing then I can't argue with that basic lack of understanding. It usually comes from people who live in a bubble where the real world does not touch them, hence teenage pirates grow out of it, or at least feel guilty about continuing it, as they recognize the value of things when they become adult.
Svardskampe wrote:
DRM=ineffective. Read argument in previous post.
Arguments are not equations, unless they are logical.
The argument that DRM is ineffective has been made by pirates for years and yet DRM is on the increase because people do not want their creative products stolen. It works. Digital distribution is the future and some form of DRM is always going to be a part of that - with exceptions for low cost operations like GOG. Steam's millions of users show that DRM can and does work if done properly.
It's fine to argue against one form or another of DRM or copy-protection, but
there is no logical argument for piracy, unless one feels that creative people should not be rewarded for their efforts.
That kind of thinking is an argument in the form of black=white. Illogical captain.