How is piracy justifiable?

How is piracy justifiable?

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Untrustworthy developers/publishers

Why does it need to be justified?

As try before you buy.

I actually dont really pirate anymore, i can usually assess a game on twitch pretty well.

if you don't like it, fuck off

>they dont have a demo available
>"i-im just testing it guys i swear!"

reject state authority to create monopoly grants
there are other, similar, tacts to take that ultimately deny the state the authority to infringe on your liberties when not preventing direct harm to others

>new restaurant opens in town
>go there to check it out
>what can I get for you, user?
>hmmmm, I shall have your filet mingion and a bottle of your finest wine
>*eat and drink it all*
>thank you, user, here's you check
>excuse you? you're a new restaurant and I don't trust you yet. sure the meal was good this time, but how can I really be sure I can trust you
>but you ate our food
>and it was delicious, so I shall pay the next time I eat here...maybe

That's how fucking retarded you sound like right now

It's not for me. It's stealing.

ITT: The delusional and 13 yr old anarchists.

Yea nah youre retarded, user

Nice food metaphor meme, faggot, although it's more like-
>new restaurant opens in town
>go there to check it out
>what can I get for you, user?
>hmmmm, I shall have your filet mingion and a bottle of your finest wine
>*eat and drink it all*
>thank you, user, here's you check
>Thank you, the food was great, good night.
>Pay and leave 15% Tip, come back another time because you were served well
That's assuming the game was good, if it's something like Andromeda, you would do well to compare it to some dive that's notorious for having awful service, a spotty sanitation record, and terrible food, that has somehow managed to stay open solely by footing the bill for any lawsuits that come their way, and bribing officials. If you went to such a place, because one of your friends told you it was good, would you still feel like paying them after getting food poisoning? I'm not even a piracyfag, I've never used emulators and roms under 8 years old, but you must be a shill to actually defend these scumbag companies.

Is this the "underages scream at each other" thread?

A. Because demos dont exist anymore
B. Because money is better spent on many other things
C. Because early access games aren't worth paying for
D.Because games that need patches for a year until they have enjyable content aren't worth paying for
E.Because you don't have to care
F.Because digital distrubution isn't comparible to physical development and distribution
Smart Answer.Devs are getting paid salaries and only the cunts who make those devs produce garbage lose money

>anarchist
liberalism actually
you don't know anything about political theory i think

>justifiable
I dont give a shit if its justifiable or not, i just do it because i can.

only when i cant afford it

Why are libraries OK but piracy isn't?

I just don't feel like paying for stuff

there's a product you want

and you can get it for free

so you do

there, i just justified piracy

Yes: i do it because i can
What are you gonna do about it, faggot?

why does Sup Forums constantly shit on piracy when every other board on this site embraces it and their posters even regularly share with each other

It isn't, but the secret to enjoying life is don't try to justify your actions

Plasticbox wars are not enough

>to try the game
>to avoid supporting shitty publishers when the dev team is long gone
>to play a game that's not being sold anymore
>when you're poor

FOOD ANALOGY LOL !

It isn't, we just like free shit

With a library you have to wait a while for it to be available so it's already gotten all the sales it's realistically going to get (the majority sales happen in the first few weeks - on the flipside, there's not really any reason to buy a game past the first few weeks). Plus, you return it when you're done.

If I can get it for free I usually will, sometimes I buy stuff.

It's capitalism 101

The End

It's not but I do it anyways because I'm a piece of shit.

When did it start to be a meme to shriek autistically any time someone uses a food analogy.

I like free stuff.

So if I wait a couple of weeks and delete it when I'm done it's OK?

How new are you?

Before the 20th century, mosts artists worked on patreon style, living out of donations of nobles that liked it.

It wasnt standard till walt disney fucked up everything for everyone.

idk, maybe 2014-2015, when SJW took over the world

I own a literal toaster, so I download to check if the game is playable
Ie: I own hitman, and I can't play it

It's not. Software pirates are basically saying "I deserve to play and use your software but you don't deserve my money".

I can completely understand emulation as most old games aren't even for fucking sale anymore.

around the same time it became a meme to use food analogies that never fit

it's free and easy
what else is there to say

Yeah, I'd say so. Although if you're going to pirate it anyway, eh, what the fuck, just pirate it from the start.

I think it's justifiable if the developers no longer make money off the title. If it's out of production, and there's no official digital version? It's not hurting anyone. If I pirate Path of Radiance, the only person getting hurt by that is the shill that wants $200 for it on Amazon.

Why would SJWs be linked to food analogies?

don't touch the poop man

It's like Library of Alexandria. It preserves games that companies won't/can't publish anymore.

Where's that Xbox emulator, goddamm it.

Why is Sup Forums the only board that complains about piracy?
Other boards seems to be fine about it.

you are not the brightest of you school, eh ?

nobody loses anything

Here's how it's justifiable: I want to play a game but don't want to simply waste 70€ on a fucking game. There.

I barely pirate anymore though. Mostly because I don't have as much time to play as I used to. Most games I currently buy are old PS2 games I find on used game stores for 1-10€ or I just wait years until a somewhat recent release's price drops to a more acceptable number. Got Witcher 3 goty edition last November for cheap and Diablo 3 + ROP 2 weeks ago for 20€.

Video game piracy is some of the easiest shitposting material out there and Sup Forums is a notoriously easy board to bait, presumably because there's a lot more underage users than usual around here. The only easier target is, as the other poster mentioned, console wars. Frankly I find it absurd that people care so much about such trivial bullshit, but that makes it all the more easy to rile them up.

Moralfags

So just stealing, right?

>you are not the brightest of you school
The irony of this sentence.

>stealing


oooooh boy, here we go

can you tell us what irony means

Can you tell me what your first language is? It's obviously not English.

>I saw something I want
>I took it
How the fuck is that not stealing you retard

I think piracy would be less in video game scene if developers would do demo disc

I remember my mom subscribe to both Nintendo and Sony magazine for me when I was a lad

I got this VHS that showed off Pokémon Red/Blue. Was rad

So just stealing, right?

I guess you are too young to have learned what irony means

> I took it
> but it's still here


woah

Just accept that, unless MS makes a virtual console (fat chance), Xbox hueg will be one of those "lost forever in time" consoles.

The only hope is the devs/ip holders of old games to realize and port those to a more timeless plataform.

Voodoo vince received a PC remaster on steam TODAY, so there is still hope.

still waiting on that definition of irony

jews steal from you.

you steal from the jews.

but of course the jews end up just not paying the artists and so on.

Why buy games used? You're not supporting anyone but the used game store you got them from. Or is that your intention? Because I would never buy a PS2 game for myself when I can just as easily download it off the internet.

Side note, any good acquisitions lately? I've been in the mood for some PS2 games.

Is not stealing when you just borrow the game.

I borrow Nintendo games, I also borrow PC games.

Dodging the question. Ah, why are ESLs so insecure.

Look up the history of copyright laws.

You'll realize piracy is the ONLY viable way to live.

did the person that gave you a copy not do so freely?

>pepe-129
Why have you saved so many of these ugly frogs? Why can't you save an aesthetically pleasing image, like this?

-When a game isn't sold in your country
-When your countries bullshit tariffs unfairly increase the games price beyond reason
-When a corporation is blatantly being greedy and doesn't adjust to your currency
-When a company has a bad track record with producing decent games and you have to try before you buy, if at all ever.

These are all legitimate reasons, especially the last one. Consumers are justified in not backing anti consumer practices or bad games, and I wish more people didn't buy shit games so they'd stop being made. If more people made informed purchase decisions we'd have a larger quality selection of titles to choose from or these companies would go out of business.

Corporations aren't your or my friend and shouldn't be defended like they are. I don't care about their money, especially if they dont produce a decent title. I'm not a fucking child living off my parents good will, I refuse to waste money on bad games. This is why I love and use steam's refunds.

Not him, but why do you care so much about ESL anons? there are a ton of those anyways.

You'll never get in trouble for doing it

what does irony mean again user

Since Steam and Origin have reasonable refund policies now, I don't see piracy being a fair thing anymore. Unless for some reason, you live in god knows what war torn country where you cannot absolutely buy the game. Older game piracy through emulators is a bit sketchy though... Especially since you can buy it online, and you DO know what you're getting in the first place...

>ITT: 16 year olds

>overexposed garbage
into the trash it goes.

PIRACY IS NEVER JUSTIFIABLE. REMINDER IF SOMEONE TRIES TO JUSTIFY IT THEY'RE A NU-PIRATE FAGGOT

Corporate damage control.

If I'm broke, I'm not going to let that stop me from playing or watching something ASAP. If it's good I'll buy it later.

Oddly enough, despite a fucking massive Steam library, I play more pirated games. I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one this happens to.

>>ITT: 16 year olds

that's not pleasant that's jarring

What's with these piracy threads lately?
No board is autistic about piracy except Sup Forums.

Because I like having the physical copies. And since I can find most games for so fucking cheap, why the hell not? Besides, I only have a laptop that can't handle emulation all that well and have to mod my PS2 to make swapmagic work on it. I used to have a fat one, but it was old and stopped working properly. Replaced with a slim and honestly don't feel like going through the hassle of making it pirate-friendly.

Well, got War of the Monsters and Oni not too long ago. Looking into getting Onimusha 1-3, as well as Silent Hill 2 and 3, but those might be a little bit more expensive. And discovered that my controller also needs replacing because the left analogue's deadzone is all fucked to hell and back and it sometimes stays stuck just outside the deadzone's edge. So no PS2 gaming for now until I get a new controller for it, I guess.

....

putting good arguments with bad ones in a list doesn't invalidate them

You can mark off the Sup Forums box

So many pepes so little time

Why? Every other board
>Pirates: Hey guys, did you listen to that new song? Did you watch that new movie? Let's have discussion!
Sup Forums
>HAHAHA BTFO KEKS DAY ONE PIRATE FUCK VIDEO GAMES HAHAHA

report, ignore and move on, it's all bait no discussion

Swapmagic?

Just get a hard drive and out ALL the isos on it.

And how will I make my console even read the hard drive? I have looked into FMCB btw, and my slim is the latest model that has that exploit fixed, so I have no idea how to do that.

>Voodoo vince received a PC remaster on steam TODAY, so there is still hope.

store.steampowered.com/app/545980/

Holly shit, you are right!. Panzer Dragoon Orta, Shenmue, Mechassault, Bloodwake, Ninja Gaiden Black, JSRF, Sega GT 2002 and other Xbox exclusives when?. Yeah, i know there are several companies involved, but a man can dream. Also, i heard the Xbox emulator is again on works.

>WOW they called me out
>BETTER CRY Sup Forums! surely that'll make them not call out anti consumer bullshit

Wanna know how I know its corporate damage control for sure now? Because on your list of responses they give you shills along with the folder of images, blaming Sup Forums is your copout response to being called out for your shit.

Get the fuck off Sup Forums and don't return.

So speaking more than one language is a bad thing, but ignoring the meaning of a simple word in your own language is not??

imo piracy is ok only when the original devs aren't getting money anymore

How is defending companies, for free, justifiable?
They don't need you, and unless they're paying you they don't even know you're doing it

>S-S-Stop pirating! it's bad!
>Denuvo happens
>HAHAHAH DENUVO IS LITERALLY UNCRACKABLE!
>gets cracked
>T-T-T-They will put up a new version you piratefags!
>S-S-Stop pirating! it's bad!
>new version happens
>HAHAHAH DENUVO IS LITERALLY UNCRACKABLE!
>gets cracked
>T-T-T-They will put up a new version you piratefags!
>S-S-Stop pirating! it's bad!
>new version happens
>HAHAHAH DENUVO IS LITERALLY UNCRACKABLE!
>gets cracked
>T-T-T-They will put up a new version you piratefags!
>S-S-Stop pirating! it's bad!
>new version happens
>HAHAHAH DENUVO IS LITERALLY UNCRACKABLE!
>gets cracked
>T-T-T-They will put up a new version you piratefags!

and of all boards in this site, how come only Sup Forums is against piracy?

how do I pirate stuff

Trolling and corporate shills. I'm guessing 30% of the posts here any given day are just corporations shilling back and forth.

get a boat and a gun and rob people on the open sea