Brb I'm just copying the contents of this volume into my brain...

brb I'm just copying the contents of this volume into my brain, after I'm done I'm going to put it back on the shelf so tenchou-sama doesn't lose a sale.

That's not illegal, your point?

Can I also read the contents flawlessly from your brain? No? Not the same thing as piracy, faglord.

We have evolved beyond an economy where you have to buy books. They're all on the internet, dumped or scanned for free. Buying anything other than food is done to be polite or to take happiness from owning a physical copy.

Can't wait until the day we can pirate food

>bleach
>naruto

sure is the weeb shelf at a comic store

books are still a huge and prospering market

Buy a brain reader, you can't pirate without computer or other similiar device too fag.

Because they want to support the writer.
It's publishers that might suffer

Oh sweetie how long have you been living underneath that rock, you're so pale?

>it's a "pirates try to justify piracy with a sloppy metaphor" thread

Please just kill yourselves. In another time and place, we would just chop off your hands and move on.

Did the shelves being literally filled with manga not clue you in?

>illiterate kid tries to act superior

Cute.

You wouldn't pirate a pizza.

This. Every book I've read so far this year, I've downloaded for free.

In another time and place where you would chop off his hands you would be milking cows and shoveling cow's shit for your king, not play videogames and have issues with piracy(unless you would be near sea).

I don't know what book stores you go to but the ones near me get pretty pissed if you go to their store and just read shit for minutes on end.

>get pretty pissed
Yes, and...?

>Book analogies
Off yourself

For a second I thought this was a stealth Deus Ex thread

It's like saying you go into gamestop, grab a video game off the shelf and just play it in the store. This is a really bad metaphor for piracy.

If everyone pirated video games, no one would make games.

Entitled pirates don't understand that pirating a game takes the livelihood away from the developer.

Pirates are just as bad as anti-vaxxers. You'll notice their rational is generally the same. "Me doing it doesn't affect anyone else, how can it be wrong?!" When if they had even an ounce of insight they could see it clearly does impact others.

Your weed probably is yet it doesn't stop you
I can still spoil you the volume
I wish I could always find the books I need for university online.

Every book store I know of would kick you out for doing this

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That would solve world hunger. Are you saying it would be a bad thing ?

>can get it for free at the library
>can get it for free on the internet
>still doing this
Retard alert

2016
>you still can't download a book into your brain

Did you make this just for this thread?
Don't you have better things to do with your time than create propaganda for a petty issue like this?

The only book stores that exist anymore are massive chains like B&N, which have multiple lounging areas to read. I can imagine a local book store getting pissy, but good lucking finding one unless it's maybe a used book store.

>DELETE THIS!

nope

The reason who these analogies are fucking retarded is that the author has no fucking idea their shit is being uploaded and pirated. It's not like you are doing it infront of their races, you are going home and uploading it.

Sounds lame. If you had a book BEAMED into your brain, wouldn't you just be remembering the book as if you just read it? You'd never be able to experience reading a really good book for the first time again.

Why are pirate fags so delusional? They have no idea how the world actually works.

Solving world hunger would be a worst case scenario for us. Then people could breed like rabbits like they already do but at 10x the speed because they're all healthy. We'll literally fuck ourselves out of room on this planet.

You would have to open the game and damage the packaging then, on the other hand game shops in my country usually have few consoles for kids to try out newest games so that they know what to beg from their parents.

Really? That's your reason for the analogy being bad?

I'm pretty sure the point of the comic is that piracy can harm sales. This is true whether the author knows it or not.

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They are probably like me, people who are cautious about said title, pirate it and try it and if they like it they buy it. Unless the game has an absolutely absurd price tag, then fuck that game.

A good writer's main issue shouldn't be making money anyway. Plenty of writers in the past just did it because they loved writing and I'm sure they would be happy if they had as more readers as possible. Ideas should be free. Besides, it's still the author's fault if he can't sell those books. He could have wrote on a less replicable support, or make the book itself more interesting as an object worth collecting.

>buzzfeed nu-male pseudointellectual hipster faggot romanticizing a dead industry tries to satisfy his inferority complex by implying he has a hard copy of Infinite Jest or a Palahniuk or some other plebbitor book

I'm a piratefag but I will admit pirating is fucking awful and the only reason I do it is because I'm selfish and egotistical.

>Psst, come over here kid
>I got some watches
>Would you buy this watch for 59.99?
>"No"
>Would you take this watch for free
>"Sure, that would be nice"
>Okay take it
>You made me lose a sale kid!
>"But, I wasn't going to buy it, I only took it because it was free. You didn't lose a sale."
>I'm going to sue you for making me lose a sale even though I wouldn't have made a sale either way, kid!

Do people actually buy watches off these kinda guys in real life?

What the fuck man how many buzzwords and memes can you fit in one post

That last part never happens.

He would just complain to his boss that a pirate cost him a sale and that's why he wasn't very succesful today.

'If everyone' then your statement would be correct, current piracy doesn't take livelihood from anyone except indie developers with shit games who are ruined by steam refunds anyway. People who pirate are usually poor so you don't lose sale anyway because they wouldn't buy game anyway (but if your game is good then they probably will once they're not poor and your game is not shit) or want to try it first (therefore only factor for you getting money is shittiness of your game). I pirated exclusively since 1995 to late 2014, now I own 3 pirated games and 153 legal - most of them I pirated in past but decided they actually deserve my money with steam sale discount, legal is simply much more comfortable than piracy(online achievements, cloud saves etc.) and people who can afford it will buy it.
Piracy lowering sales meme was debunked years ago.

Weed is not illegal in my country, so there's nothing to stop me.

How retarded are you?

>using pirated food molecule structures
>not paying for the rights to replicate the food

Fucking redguards

can't wait until the day I can pirate your mom

One comic store I went to had a sign saying "This is a store, not a library." Think people got kicked out if they loitered & never bought anything.

Companies have sued people over a hard upload count, they then have to pay based or the hard amount regardless of the fact that many of those downloads are not a lost sale

>I can't justify my position
>I know, I'll argue through an inaccurate analogy


Look if you pirate, fine, everyone does it, but please stop embarrassing yourselves by pretending it isn't theft

So it is okay for the author to lose sales as long as they are unaware of it?

>pirated a game 2 weeks ago
>enjoyed it
>tomorrow I'm going to the shop to buy it

checkmate

>didn't mention food or shit in the analogy

apply yourself

>Spending money when unnecessary

You are retarded.

>I wasn't going to buy it anyway
There is no problem with this argument. It's only your problem when you don't believe it.

>pirate advertising to people about to buy the book that they can have it for free
This does not happen

It isn't, that's why it's called 'piracy' and not 'digitheft' go educate yourself.

>Y-Yeah but if you were good you'd give me free things for the pleasure of it! What? Pay your bills? Listen if you were GOOD you wouldn't even WORRY about it - just keep making things for me for free! Filter feed and dumpster dive if you have to!

Glad I don't live in burgerstan in that case.

>no wanting the pleasure to own a box to add to your collection
come on
beside I'm not necessary either, yet I am here

Where the fuck is the inevitable food analogy.

On Sup Forums it does happen

>This does not happen

You mean people on Sup Forums never call buyfags retards for spending money on video games? You mean there aren't people right here in this very thread, trying to convince people who buy video games that piracy is okay?

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>Sup Forums is the sample of normal human behavior in the outside world

maybe try to go out sometimes, there are people who would take up in the ass futa horse cocks, yet they don't represent what's normal or rest of the humanity

You do not buy a game on Sup Forums. You buy it on steam or the game's page. If somebody is on the page about to buy the game, nobody is there telling them to pirate it.

I don't give a shit what's normal or what's right, to be honest.

It's just ironic that you would say it "does not happen" while it's happening.

He's just having a demo.
If you read the whole book and put it back then you're a little shit, but everyone knows that.

>tfw I still buy the overpriced physical copies of my Japanese mangos

The last panel can also be due to the massive pirates pirating the book, free marketing, word of mouth, there will be some legit buyers wanting a copy.

>overpriced physical copies
They usually have lower print volumes, and all kinds of publishing/licensing contracts involved. Can't really do much to change the cost.

>If everyone pirated video games, no one would make games.
so name just one earth where that has happened. in this dimension there are people giving millions of dollars for games that don't even exist. a functional market will always exist if only because people like you keep getting born every minute (as the saying goes)

i'm sorry that you lack the ability to separate your headcanon theories from the reality that you live in

Does this mean that a potential customer never became a pirate and therefore that no one has ever lost a sale due to piracy?

If not, you kind of missed the point of the comic, which is clearly a response to the "I personally wasn't going to buy it anyway and therefore piracy should be legal" argument.

10/10
And this is why I paywall behind patreon for all I do, I make tons of cash for those who can pay and even if some shit gets stolen I don't lose out.

Hopefully, piracy will end completely one day soon. I'll laugh at all the cry babies who get ass raped in prison for stealing mlp and shitty indie games. lawl

every book store that has manga has all the naruto mangas

>Does this mean that a potential customer never became a pirate
Not by somebody stopping them at the "buy" button and telling them to pirate it.

Can't believe pirates are this retarded.

I'm sure the guy who made the comic is very sorry that he illustrated this happening in front of the store and not earlier in a private conversation or on a board like Sup Forums. But being stopped in front of the store isn't the only way a potential customer initially willing to part with his money can instead be convinced to save some money by turning to piracy.

Every piratefag I've physically met has either offered to pirate something for me or has questioned why I bought something that I could have pirated.

He seems like a jolly fellow.

I don't want to spend twenty bucks on ten chapters of a manga if I could read all 903 chapters for free.

I ended up doing so to show my support and have a copy but I thank piracy for allowing me to read.

Piratefags are very entitled though. Check out any pirate forum and look in any thread about a crack for something being released. Most people then start immediately asking when the next game is going to be cracked

Taking everything so literally is a sign of autism.