Minecraft Creator: Piracy Is Not Theft!

Gimpymoo said:
Piracey in the past was done to avoid disc checks and not have to wait for boxes/discs to be delivered.

We have Steam now, so from a personal view, the above boxes are ticked ;)
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Indeed, Steam is a nice way of reducing piracy simply because they've made it so easy to buy games.
 
sldsmkd said:
I used to pirate stuff all the time, mainly because I didn't have the cash to buy it - so regardless it wouldn't have been a sale. These days I buy a lot of stuff because I can spare the cash AND importantly it's convenient.

A pirated game is not a lost sale, it is a sale that never was and as it never cost the manufacturer a penny to make that copy then it's not theft.
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THIS MAN SPEAKS ZEE TRUTH
Got to teach these greedy devs or publishers that we are not fools I keep telling people, is it bloody worth paying £30-40 for a game that last 5-6hours on SP campaign? And NO I don't play online. Don't you dare comparing this to buying a super car etc.
I do buy games if the games are really good to show my support.
Flame on!
 
At least piracy isnt making money like the old days. I mean ok their is one kinda pirate who downloads and burns and sells at carboot fairs and then their is the other who downloads purely for themselves and not about doing it for money.

Most is the later which imo that kinda piracy is fine. I do not like the piracy of downloading and selling as that is real piracy imo. Because their in it for the money where as most just want to try the latest stuff or the ultra rare which u cant find to buy.

Something i dont see really discussed on forums is the different forms of piracy. One is a bad one and the other is a lot more tolerable and is socially the norm nowadays due to the times.

One hurts no one and one hurts the devs (kinda) by taking sales away and putting the money in the pirates hands (carboot pirate) which is the wrong one. But the personal pirates which are not about money is the good one.
 
Isn't this obvious? A lot of derps on here call piracy theft but piracy is merely making a copy of something. (in digital terms)

Theft is taking something away, you could argue you're taking away the money that a developer has earned but it's not really true.

Technically I owe Adobe money for a license of Photoshop, I used to use it at college so I knew my way around it, if it wasn't for me pirating it would I pay for it? No. I'd just use a free alternative instead, but since I have the option of using it I might as well.

As for the low moral compass remarks. Lol, right, I would never steal something from somebody so don't even try to say piracy = bad person.

I don't pirate games though, buy pretty much everything through Steam now.
 
Piracy is not always about not willing to put up with the cost of the game, sometimes people pirate games because they are not willing to put up with the DRM in the game that punishes legit copies of the game while does nothing to pirates. With stuff like activation limits, limiting to a single PC, requiring internet connection continously while playing and malware like starforce all used as DRM it is no wonder that some people pirate games as all of them protection methods don't stop pirates but they do cause issues for those who pay for the game, that shouldn't happen.

Some pirates also pirate games that have no demo or beta on the basis that they want to try a game before they buy it, and there are a lot of pirates who think that if the game is worthy of their money then they will pay for a copy of the game to support the development of future games.

I'm not trying to say there are not greedy pirates who do it just because they don't want to pay, but there are people with a whole range of reasons for pirating a game and some of those reasons are resonable in my opinion.
 
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