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What the **** is wrong with these people?

Looks worse than DA:O, which is quite a feat.

Looks pretty awful.

Well, it's not the new ARK album, but at least Tore Ostby is doing something. The man is easily a contender for best contemporary electric guitarist, yet he plays so little. It's infuriating. The new ARK album is supposedly still coming out, though, so I guess I have something to look forward.

You cannot get rid of piracy through enforcement of copyright laws - those rely on general compliance rather than enforcement to work. Basically, until public opinion of piracy has shifted enough that it is generally considered a rotten thing to do and the majority of people don't do it for that reason, piracy will be a problem. For music, this probably will never happen unless the music industry realizes their current business model is stupid and unworkable. For games, I'm really not sure - I don't pirate games, and I don't know how big of a problem piracy of video games actually is.

I shouldn't have found that funny. Really, I know I shouldn't. But I laughed, regardless.

Actually, that's pretty much the situation in which I'd least object to piracy of games - if you're not sure you'd like a game, piracy is a good way to find out if it's worth buying without having to gamble your own money. Assuming, of course, that you buy it if you enjoyed it.

Oh come on, lighten up. We could use a good laugh.

Do it.

If only there were more bands like this...

I haven't seen anyone claim that, here or in that linked article. The point isn't that the developer/publisher is losing money every time someone plays a pirated game illegally. The developer/publisher has released their work for a price. Pirates ignore that price and take the game without paying. It is wrong, and it is terribly frustrating for many of the people working on games. I don't know why anyone needs hard data to see that, it is basic common sense. That it is "wrong" is "common sense," sure. That it severely hurts the market is not.

Can't say I sympathize with the author there, his snobby tone and illogical nonsequiturs make it hard for me to take him seriously. When I see some hard data that piracy is seriously harming the video game industry, and some legitimate analysis of said data, I'll take it seriously. And I don't even pirate games.

Do you really think this is Volourn not liking KotOR2 and us getting angry and not Volourn trolling the crap out of everyone?

Fair enough. The morality isn't really what's relevant when defining it, though - what's important is the impact it has on sales. Why is that? This isn't business law, it is criminal law we are talking about. Morality does come into play considerably. What matters is how hard this hits Crytek, not how much time the guy who leaked it should serve. I'd argue that even morally it's closer to counterfeiting, too, if you want to argue that. Not that it really matters.

Fair enough. The morality isn't really what's relevant when defining it, though - what's important is the impact it has on sales.

1/10 You're getting worse.

Not really, as it doesn't take a team of 100+ people years to make currency. I'd say it is a lot closer to stealing than counterfeiting. Counterfeiting (which isn't restricted to money, by the way) is illegally imitating/producing a product. Stealing is taking it from those who have already made it. Piracy quite clearly falls in the former category. In fact, it's often grouped with counterfeit goods in studies. It's almost never grouped with theft, because the economic impact is much more comparable to that of counterfeiting than of theft.

Stealing implies that the victim loses possession of the thing that is stolen. Piracy does not. Equating the two actions is just as silly as calling piracy "borrowing." Piracy is much closer to counterfeiting than to stealing.

It's stealing. No, it's not. It's copyright infringement. When you steal something, you deprive the victim of the thing itself. When you pirate something, you deprive the victim of potential profit. The two are not equivalent.

I don't know why anyone does. He's just a troll.

No, piracy isn't stealing. It's copyright infringement. The two are different things. Edit: It certainly isn't "borrowing," however.

2/10 What kind of stuff? I never saw any dropped content with him even though it always seemed he was meant to somehow . There are some really cool cut lines of his about Malachor and its echoes towards the end.

I love Flow, even if it is a bit of a departure from Conception's earlier style.