Piracy is wrong

[Easton Diaz]

>Piracy is wrong
>Used games/gray market/sharing are right
You are right Sup Forums.

[Dylan Murphy]

Fuck only knows whats going on in that picture.

[Ryan Stewart]

>>Used games/gray market/sharing

[Jaxon Barnes]

first 2 look like 2nd hand market games being passed around

bottom pic is piracy

[Andrew Russell]

>buy game
>sell game?
>??????
>profit!!!!

[Sebastian Carter]

Loss?

[John Morales]

Remember kids. Every time you let play local multiplayer you hurt the industry.

[Jaxon Foster]

Little bit more accurate.

[Easton Howard]

Used games are ok because a single copy of the game is sold and ownership goes from a single user to another single user. Piracy creates multiple copies from one game to go to multiple users and is not the same as just sharing with one of your friends. I mean I'm not going to lie, I've pirated movies and shit before, but I'm not gonna sit here and try to justify it.

[Evan King]

In all 3 cases the developer only gets paid once so it's literally the same shit to them.

I'd argue that renting the game is more damaging to the developer, because they're actually taking away someone who would be willing to pay for the game, whereas pirates wouldn't pay for every game they pirate.

[Hudson Turner]

Yes and that isnt what it looks like is going on in the picture

[Samuel Hall]

>buy game
>games forces you to install Steam and activate it there to play it
>can't sell the game afterwards without giving away whole Steam account
We all know it doesn't work like this anymore

[Jose Parker]

So what?

[Ryder Cruz]

I'm sure they'd rather have one guy sell their game once than have him throw it online for thousands though

[Wyatt Smith]

You mean lending the game to your friend, right?

[Jackson Sullivan]

What the fuck is going on in that picture

[Anthony Lee]

Making a copy of a game is piracy? So if the game is originally intent to be given away for free, and you copy it, is it piracy?

[Zachary Thomas]

Guys, it's actually an image created by aliens trying to understand how monitary transactions are made, we have to clear their confusion on how it works

[Nolan Ramirez]

Is this right?

[Jack Brooks]

I wouldn't be so sure about that.

youtube.com/watch?v=0Qkyt1wXNlI
unc.edu/~cigar/papers/FileSharing_March2004.pdf
gao.gov/new.items/d10423.pdf
arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/06/study-p2p-customers-are-hollywoods-best-friend.ars
arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/04/us-government-finally-admits-most-piracy-estimates-are-bogus.ars
arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2008/01/oops-mpaa-admits-college-piracy-numbers-grossly-inflated.ars
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8354166.stm
amitay.us/blog/files/piracy_doubled_my_app_sales.php
arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/05/file-sharers-are-content-industrys-largest-customers.ars
arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2008/10/dodgy-digits-behind-the-war-on-piracy.ars
ivir.nl/publicaties/poort/Filesharing_2012.pdf
torrentfreak.com/file-sharers-buy-more-movies-121018/
piracy.americanassembly.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Copy-Culture.pdf
techdirt.com/articles/20121114/07180721044/riaa-prefers-customers-who-buy-little-to-pirates-who-buy-lot.shtml
dslreports.com/shownews/Another-Study-Shows-Pirates-Buy-More-Content-124363
stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk/binaries/research/telecoms-research/online-copyright/deep-dive.pdf

[Ian Green]

...

[Jeremiah Brown]

Just Cause 3 really was that big a flop? How is it?

I have just cause 2 but it makes zero fucking sense. Like, I can't even progress, everything is so disjointed and jumbled, I feel like I'm on drugs playing it.

[Brayden Lopez]

You go to the place they tell you and you blow it up, what's so hard about it?

[Ian Robinson]

I can't explain it, maybe it's because I started it, stopped playing for a year and came back to it

[Luke Gonzalez]

Bump