>"If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing."

Oh yeah? If paying a prostitute isn't owning, am I therefore allowed to fuck her for the rest of her life because that somehow isn't rape?

Check and Mate piraturds.

you're explicitly renting them for a timed duration, read the contract dumbass.

>>713520735 (OP)
>Prostitute rape analogy
Yikes

>brb making a copy of my favorite prostitute to imprint on my sexdroid
They want to take this future from you

>>713520795
yeah and this applies to video games too

>>713520735 (OP)
>If paying a prostitute isn't owning, am I therefore allowed to fuck her for the rest of her life because that somehow isn't rape?
yeah

>>713520735 (OP)
how come buying isn't owning anymore?

>>713521151
it never was, publishers just couldn't enforce it back then

>>713520795
yet every store says BUY instead of RENT

>>713520795
Yeah so I'm explicitly acquiring a license until the title expires on Steam after some time.

>>713520735 (OP)
why would you post christian good boy Nero in this?

>>713521204
What you're buying is the license. And licenses can be revoked based on the terms set in the licensing contract. I knew /v/ was a low IQ board but this is shit you learn in 5th grade, lmao.

>>713520735 (OP)
Video games aren't people.
>inb4 neither are prostitutes

>>713520735 (OP)
>"If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing."
Which zoomer e-celeb came up with this stupid phrase anyway?

Makes it really difficult to discuss piracy and ownership online, when all the zoomies just default to soundbites like that.

>>713521356
>you're buying a
>and it can be revoked
then you're not buying
you're renting the license.

can't wait for the EU to GAPE Gaben's asshole
Gaben? more like Gapen when they're done with him and the rest of this niggerfaggot industry

>>713521464
There is a spelling error in your screenshot. It should be "Big Girls Don't Cry"

>>713521464
Most people don't think, and never have.
It just became easier to posture at.

>>713521516
Why do you hate Gaben? He always supported the best videogame company.

>>713520735 (OP)
You aren't renting a game. They sell it to you as you owning the game, and pretend like when they remotely brick your game that it's still exactly what you payed for.

>>713521547
That's the joke. Brig(antine) is a type of ship. It's from an all female Sea of Thieves streamer crew, or something.

Piratesoftware already settled this. Ross lost.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioqSvLqB46Y

>>713521737
Sounds made up but I will believe you because I'm gullible.

>>713520735 (OP)

>If paying a prostitute isn't owning, am I therefore allowed to fuck her for the rest of her life because that somehow isn't rape?

To theoretically "pirate" a person you would need to essentially clone them. Not the same as pushing copy and paste.
This doesn't make sense because piracy essentially steals the business the content creator would have earned. You wouldn't pay the prostitute at all, you would just fuck her free forever. At least, an identical clone of her. The clone can be fucked without affecting the original.Video game developers are releasing prostitute clones with the hopes that people pay them money to use them. So why not just do Wu-Tang did with "Once Upon a Time in Shaolin" and make only one copy of an album?

You've tied yourself to the idea that video games need to made for profit, which negates the entire indie game industry: the prostitutes working for free.
It's a bit of a catch-22, you want your prostitute/game/idea to gain exposure whether that is for profit or not, but you also worry about competitors copying your ideas and undermining your originality. Better to simply not release it then? If a tree falls in the forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound? If you have an amazing game made but never release it, who cares?
I think piracy is the lesser issue here, I pirated Dokapon Kingdom for Wii back in the day, loved it, and then eventually bought a copy.

I would be more worried about developers releasing hyped up, terrible games. That's a waste of time for everyone. Not only does the paying consumer feel cheated out of both time and money, but so does the pirate, who wastes their time pirating it.
Good games are gonna get pirated because people want to play it due to word of mouth.

>>713521805
I skipped ahead to get this point
>"despite affecting all live-service games"
>doesn't even affect f2p games
Oh, so he's just a retard hack. Who would have guessed.

>>713522226
>I once pirated a game, loved it, and then eventually bought a cheap second hand copy
Yeah, I'm sure the game company was thrilled for you being so honorable and generous...

>Good games are gonna get pirated because people want to play it due to word of mouth.
What does that even mean? And lot of time you pirates also claim to "pirate only bad games", which similarly doesn't make any sense.

Just stop making excuses. Either pay for the stuff you want to experience, or STFU.

>>713521978
>Sounds made up
Not sure which part? But you can read about brigantines on Wikipedia, if you want.

>>713522641
You really trust this homeless hobo more?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIfRLujXtUo
LOL

>>713520735 (OP)
You wouldn't download a whore?

>>713520735 (OP)
/tv/
>Piracy is based!
/co/
>Piracy is based!
/a/
>Piracy is based! Fuck crunchyroll!
/v/eddit
>NOOOOOOO YOU SUBHUMAN NIGGER THIEVES THINK ABOUT THE SMALL GAY BABY INDIE DEVS KILLING XHEY/XHEMSELVES RIGHT NOW YOU FUCKING BIGOTED PIECES OF DOGSHIT! KILL YOURSELF! KILL YOURSELF NOW!!

>>713520735 (OP)
>Mental gymnastics to justify bootlicking
You hate to see it, but not that it matters anyway, because modern gaming isn't even worth pirating

>>713521196
not even back in slavery era?

(You) BUY the priviledge of playing videogame for as long as I ALLOW (You) to play.
Simple as

Gonna pirate my next game while raping a hooker.

>>713521196
They couldn't enforce it because of physical media laws. Digital media doesn't have the same consumer protections. Every push to give consumers the same rights for digital media that they do for physical media has failed and its all because of jewish deplatforming and lobbying.

Gonna rape my next game after pirating a hooker.

Gonna hook a pirate before gaming at a play

>>713522997
>Either pay for the stuff you want to experience, or STFU.

That requires money, which requires a job. Ideally, one should work, contribute to society, and be rewarded with the means to buy entertainment. However, what is the point of working if you can just speculate or invest your money? Why not just pirate money?

>I once pirated a game, loved it, and then eventually bought a cheap second hand copy
>Yeah, I'm sure the game company was thrilled for you being so honorable and generous...

You're not actually against buying secondhand copies are you? I have to be a real fan and buy it new on launch day? I'd rather just wait until the hype dies down, people get tired of it and it's cheaper.

>Good games are gonna get pirated because people want to play it due to word of mouth.
>What does that even mean?

Supply and demand. In this case, the Supply/software is basically infinite since you can copy it. The developer can limit this by selling copies and utilizing piracy protection. You put people in jail who go against the law and pirate anyways.
The problem is, there aren't any real repercussions to downloading illegal media, only uploading.
In the end, it's like returning the shopping cart in the parking lot of the supermarket. There is no benefit to returning it when you are done, but it does seem like a dick move not to return it. You want to work hard and earn money to pay for games? Great. You probably will sleep better at night.

Anytime someone takes the moral high ground on any issue: "Recycling is important and those that do not are scum!" makes me think you are not operating logically, but emotionally. I'm not considering your argument because you still haven't explained why piracy is bad, you've only only given the ultimatum of "My standpoint" or STFU. If you can't even concede the silver lining in the oppositions point, no one intelligent is going to take your opinion seriously.

>>713520735 (OP)
Retarded assumption.
Piracy is pic related.
2/10 bait made me reply

>>713523583
/v/ has been astroturfed by babel media and the like for a long time now
might as well accept this place is just porn threads and advertising and move on to have actual discussions in the sub-/v/s

SKG won't kill Single Player Gatcha games.

>>713524898
>"Recycling is important and those that do not are scum!" makes me think you are not operating logically, but emotionally
Recycling IS rational. This is a bad example, even for arguments sake.

>I have to be a real fan and buy it new on launch day?
The truth is, that's how game companies make their money. That's why they use Denuvo and other shit like that, to make sure the crucial early period of the product's lifespan pays off. You can see from sales graphs that the first couple of weeks make up for something like 80-90% of the total revenue.

So yeah, a "real fan" WOULD buy something on launch day, that would only be logical. "Pirating first, then buying on sale, once the hype dies down", on the other hand, is a totally emotional stance from you.

>>713520735 (OP)
Think of the shareholders, fucking antisemite

>>713520735 (OP)
I don't think that's supposed to be a fully justified argument, just a spiteful retort to greedy practices.

>>713520735 (OP)
>If paying a prostitute isn't owning, am I therefore allowed to fuck her for the rest of her life because that somehow isn't rape?
That's definitely rape, but it still wouldn't be stealing.

>>713522997
>Either pay for the stuff you want to experience, or STFU
nta, but gaming is more complex than that. Back in the day of games sold as-is, no dlc, no subscriptions, etc, absolutely. That shit was black and white. Now? I absolutely love the idea of gamecube games getting a sweeping upscale/uprez/enhancement
However, I'm not going to buy a system just for a service the shove every possible additional feature into. I don't care for online play. Data recovery should be complimentary. Minor theme/ aesthetic changes should be complimentary.
I'm not gonna overpay for a system that jacked the price up for features I don't care about (anything above 1080, hdr, etc), and other features I don't intend to use.
If they brought back the virtual console, and made data recovery and minor theme changes free, sure, I'd buy a switch 2 today.
But until then, I'll just play the original gc games I have on my modded wii

Piracy isn't stealing when I do it because everything in the world already belongs to me, and it doesn't matter if anyone says otherwise, because they're not me, they're wrong by default. You're only right if you agree with me, because I am the most important person ever.

Anyway I don't care what dumb not-me crap you want to talk about, this is a me thread now, let's all talk about meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee, and how perfect in every way I am.

>>713523583
Difference is video game pirates try to take a moral high ground to attack people that pay