How come the CPS aren't prosecuting people all over the place? Theft is, after all, a criminal offense.
Piracy costing tens of billions of pounds
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How come the CPS aren't prosecuting people all over the place? Theft is, after all, a criminal offense.
Quite a few companies now are dropping all the DRM because it just inconveniences people who have bought the game legit and doesn't hinder the pirates at all. Demigod is a new one with no DRM.. Its the way forward in my oppinion!
I got a better solution - offer us what we want in the ford of an online store with FAIR prices.
Offer us 1080p movies over the net; offer it in a format that is more or less universal and can be incorporated into most things (so no DRM).
If a DVD costs £15 - then the same movie downloaded over the net (remember the fact that it is 1080p does not add any extra cost) should cost LESS than £15 - because that £15 has to cover making disks, moving them from god knows where; the physical shop facilities; the staff and so on.
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Can. Worms. Everywhere. Yet again.
I swear this topic is discussed more than any other in OCUK history!
I swear this topic is discussed more than any other in OCUK history!
Since my last comment all I see is people whine and cry about prices yet many have suggested other solutions which are blatently ignored or are singled out on specific comments to give there reason why Piracy is the only viable option.
Hopfully you get caught soon, I will look forward to YOUR OcUK thread about how you received a letter from x people demanding x money. Lord knows we have enough of them in GD.
Hopfully you get caught soon, I will look forward to YOUR OcUK thread about how you received a letter from x people demanding x money. Lord knows we have enough of them in GD.
Because millions of people are doing it. Try prosecuting millions of people.
And because it is not theft
It will cost to much money for the government to prosecute everyone who pirates in the UK.. let alone the world.
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Lol , this made me laugh
Artists do not make money from albums sales, not really, they obviously do yes. but not like the producers and song writers and so on. they make their money from signing a deal and then their live performances/tours. if you compare the money made from sales and touring there would be a big difference.
Cry me a river. That's got to be the lamest excuse ever.
LoveFilm, Amazon, iTunes etc all do film rentals at the same price as BB, all from your desk.
200GB Steam folder, 30GB non-steam games, 300GB graphics work, 100GB photos, 100GB applications and drivers.. it's not only pirates that need terabyte drives.
Not to mention without that disgusting half naked fat man and his branding iron, unskippable, telling all of us who buy films that we're theiving scum.
Meanwhile that bit gets missed out on a nice free download
interesting idea
if most of the population are braking the law, maybe the law needs changing?
Correct. Music is longer worth what it once was. Computer technology now allows music to be recorded at a fraction of the price it once was and now there's more people producing music than there's ever been. And the cost of cds doesn't reflect the increased competition. The more there is of something the less it's worth.
I won't even get started on the issue of how the quality of music has severly gone down hill over the past 10 years.
Not to mention without that disgusting half naked fat man and his branding iron, unskippable, telling all of us who buy films that we're theiving scum.
Meanwhile that bit gets missed out on a nice free download
I find the irony of those adverts hilarious.
"YOU WOULDN'T STEAL A PURSE (bow wow a wow a bow wooooow...)"
Yes, and i'm watching this message on a DVD i've paid my hard earned cash on. GET LOST.
Yep, it are idiots who assume I'd buy even 10% the rubbish I've downloaded, and same for many other people. I buy the really good things anyways.
SkeeterPSA said:
€€€€€€€€€€€ Ads -> Radio -> Publisher.
growse said:
What's theft got to do with piracy ?
Luckily where I live, just downloading is not an offense.
Do you understand english ?
What's so hard to understand about this :
Nothing is taken with piracy, it's cloned.
It are 2 entirely different offenses.
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Theft is taking someone elses property and depriving them of it, no human being is actually hurt by the act of software piracy.
I would actively encourage it if everybody donated some of the money they saved to help just one of the millions of starving human beings on this planet, the multi-billion dollar corporations amassing wealth for themselves sure aren't going to help them (unless it's to dodge taxes
).
I would actively encourage it if everybody donated some of the money they saved to help just one of the millions of starving human beings on this planet, the multi-billion dollar corporations amassing wealth for themselves sure aren't going to help them (unless it's to dodge taxes
).