Achenar, on 03 July 2012 - 02:52 PM, said:
That is taking the metaphor to its obvious extreme, because with that logic, if someone accidentally leaves their car unlocked for a few minutes when they head into the store, that car and everything inside the car is "free stuff" for passers-by. Yet the car's driver clearly never intended for that to happen. Similarly, people who produce online software at cost (usually) never intend for people to profit from it by having their software torrented or keygenned. The only reason why there is the perception of freedom online is because the ability to enforce piracy is severely limited, but if that enforcement was more widespread, it would be just as fruitful as attempting to steal a car - that is, not at all, because you would eventually be caught.
So, failed attempt to be clever on your part.
Absolutely wrong. If you steal something from real life, you leave the victim without the object that you stole!
Online, nobody is stealing anything.
Online, people that take everything for free, are people that would not buy the said thing anyway.
The real pirates that should be prosecuted, are the ones that take a game for free from a torrent, burn it on a blank dvd and then resell it for their own profit!
When you decide that you have the money to buy a game/app and just when you are about to go to the store to buy it, you decide to pirate it instead just because you can, then you have a morale problem.
Software can be cloned with 0 costs and as many times as it's needed.
Piracy is not theft, piracy is just a form of free trial.
To censor data flow online, is not your job, it's the job of it's creators!
You have the wrong idea about piracy and I'm in no way here to try and change it.
This is an old subject and every time it get's brought up, there are always 2 sides with strong opinions that oppose each other.
As a prominent opposer of censorship, I will continue to promote open source and free data flow for as long as I live.
Piracy is acceptable for me and the people that think like me as long as it's not performed in a morally questionable way!
If companies can't defend their software properly, then their data shall be openly accessible to everybody!
if companies can't defend their data and everybody pirates their data, then that company needs to decide if they can still afford to exist and it's not our problem if they go bankrupt, it's their problem!
A company that produces quality products, shall always receive enough fan support, in order to be motivated to continue and produce more!
So to answer your question.
I was not attempting to be clever.
I don't need to try and be clever with such themes, on a forum that has nothing to do with this type of stuff.
I was just stating my beliefs as I'm a relatively prominent advocate of piracy in my spare time and I actively contribute to the game scene or what you might call release groups which some of the mods of this site can also confirm if needed.
I'm very proud with my position towards the entire system and more than everything I love to know that I'm contributing to sharing everything for free for others to obtain it if they so desire.
So, the joke is on you if you thought I was trying to expose my cleverness when in fact I was just stating the obvious there and to a relatively small audience too.
I'm a dedicated and proud far right Iron Guardist in everything I do, both internet and physical life and I'm also very historically accurate with my favorite legion's creeds and value systems!
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