The problem isn’t eating for entertainment is that you need very little fuel while gaming and remaining sedentary.

What airline food? Wives do take forever to get ready though

See this is such a ridiculous view. In your scenario, you are assuming that most people pirate. Or that the lack of piracy would somehow change how honest people spend their money on products. The way adults who don’t break the law spend their money is that they only buy what they can afford. They pick and choose and…

Yes digital does cost money since as you said, server bandwidth as well as a range of other issues. It isn’t as simple as you make a game, put it up for digital distribution and BAM it works and costs $0.

Hiking. Borrowing books from your local library. Working out. Volunteering at local organizations.

No research does NOT only show it hurts small time devs. It hurts every bottom line of every company impacted by it. I don’t care if it is EA, Sony, or whoever. Larger, more diverse companies can just absorb the loss easier.

Why do you think their games didn’t sell well LOL?? Piracy.

The thing is you can’t differentiate one from the other. It negatively impacts the entire industry. Your robbing from the rich and the poor. One isn’t more “right” than the other. It is illegal no matter which way you look at it.

The point is that people who have the potential to buy the game, don’t because they pirate it instead. Sure, there is a percentage that have no intent to buy the game with or without piracy. BUT there is a percentage that without piracy WOULD buy the game. The loss of sale is the percentage that WITHOUT piracy would…

Potential sales is not bullshit. If you pirate a game, and you can play that whole game for free, where is the incentive to buy that game. If you provide a free alternative for someone to acquire something rather than pay for it, then some people WILL take the free option over the paid. This is where the loss of…

You are just straight up fucking retarded if you don’t think piracy is stealing. Piracy is a third option. Buy the game, pirate the game, or do neither. People will steal the game just for the fact they can acquire it for free.

Look at their estimated losses due to piracy. Just because it is successful does not mean it is not impacted by piracy. Worldwide, even if 25% of those pirated copies would have been sold, that is a considerable amount of money.

You seem young. When you get to the professional world and are paid for your knowledge and/or skillset then you realize your value and what you should be getting paid for it. I would be pissed as fuck if someone was stealing my work and distributing it, effectively putting me out of a job.

You ever think that DLC is in response to piracy? I don’t know how old you are, or if you remember gaming even 10 years ago but DLC didn’t exist. Expansion packs would be released every so often, which I guess is the equivalent to some DLC. However, when everyone pirated everything, no one was making money. So DLC now…

How did the bored and impoverished survive before movies and video games?

Sorry about your situation, truly. But you chose video games as a distraction. You could have taken up any number of free or cheaper hobbies/distractions.

How is a digital work different from a physical item made on an assembly line in a factory? That physical item made in a factory is a copy of an original work.

The payments they asked for were ridiculous, however I think it had to do more with sending a “message” and acting as a deterrent for future thieves. It isn’t so much they are trying to recoup their costs, but scare anyone else from doing it due to high financial burden.

So wrong. First off, the definition of theft isn’t the “net loss of property”. Theft is when something is stolen. AKA, taking something that isn’t yours. Ever wonder we have patents on things? Yea, to stop people form stealing ideas and concepts. What about identify left?

You are trying to justify stealing with some highly fallible logic.