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iDroid84 said:
I find it really annoying when people like you don't listen to anyone but themselves and the people who created the law because they think they are always right.

As I said it's my opinion that it's theft and I still think it's theft as stated.
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Your position is illogical. It's not personal opinion which decides something is theft, It's the law.

You appear to be trying to argue against the Theft Act.
 
Oh yeah, also iDroid84 is a thief.

I come to this conclusion because he copied my sig some months ago so and used it in his signature.

THIEF!


:p
 
iDroid84 said:
As I said it's my opinion that it's theft and I still think it's theft as stated.
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Ok but surely you admit that legally speaking, you're wrong?

Fox is making intelligent, informed comments on the basis of the law of this country, which seems to be a fairly good basis of an argument. Stating that you believe the law to be wrong is an interesting comment, but is not something you can back up.
 
bhavv said:
E.G. My friend has a CD and I ask to borrow it to listen to.

I stick the CD into my PC, add it to my media library then give it back.

Who have I stolen a CD from? The friend got his / her CD back, I didnt steal it from a store, and wouldnt have bought a copy anyway.

Pretty much every single person I have ever known has at least copied a CD from someone else, I cant believe that iDroid never has.
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I have purchased everything I use, I use torrents for game patches e.t.c but not for content that was stolen like movies, applications e.t.c.

Dj_Jestar said:
iDroid84 might kill someone. Lets lock him up just in case.
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I could say that about 100% of this forum. ;)
 
mrk said:
Companies spend hundreds of thousands of £ combatting piracy and focusing on the success or failure of a release based on how widely pirated it is.

They forget that the success or failure of a release isn't based on how many people pirate it but actually how many people:

A) Buy it in the shops, a serial pirate is NOT going to be buying it even if he or she cannot pirate it.
B) Like it and tell their friends about it.

A lot of companies (games publishers as of late) have been focusing on fighting piracy via obscene antipiracy measures (UBISOFT COUGH COUGH) and calling it a success because that new protection is unbreakable but stuff like that just hurts legitimate buyers who get cheesed off and in future think twice about buying stuff from the same publisher.

Piracy cannot be fought, it cannot be stopped and will continue forever. The last 20 or so years of fighting piracy has not resulted in a single case of it dropping considerably so it's just a waste of money.

I reckon if these companies want to make money then they should stop wasting money attempting to fight cases in court and installing expensive antipiracy measures that don't actually work or are bypassed within days by hackers and instead spend that money on better marketing and stuff.
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It can easily be fought by making the means to access the content legally more appealing than bothering with piracy. An entire music album costs <£1 in Singapore. Why bother getting a priate copy when you can get the real thing for less than a quid?

I agree, Ubisoft etc. shoot themselves in the foot by piling on the DRM making pirated copies more appealing than the real thing.

Piracy isn't harming the industry as badly as MPA/RIAA/etc make out.

However, I still cannot believe there are people claiming piracy doesn't harm the industry at all. That is such an unbelievably stupid thing to claim it is dumbfounding.
 
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