An interesting article about piracy

[mkreku]

Or maybe they're just lazy bums who think the whole payment part of the deal is too much trouble and instead opted to click ONE LINK to download it illegally.

 

Just a thought.

[Walsingham]

  mkreku said:

Or maybe they're just lazy bums who think the whole payment part of the deal is too much trouble and instead opted to click ONE LINK to download it illegally.

 

Just a thought.

 

Point.

[Nightshape]

  213374U said:

Right, because reducing the opinions and reasons of any number of members of a heterogeneous group to just ONE, always works beautifully.

 

Great job.

 

And here I was thinking I'd made a funny!

[Zoraptor]

In this case paying the minimum amount is worse than pirating as a 0.01$ donation is in actual effect a -0.39$ donation due to the transaction fees.

 

Not that I'm defending the pirates mind you, if you're pirating indie games associated with charity then you're pretty much scum but I have seen a fair few people who appear to be really proud of having paid 1c for the bundle too and think they're awesome because they haven't pirated it.

[213374U]

  Nightshape said:

And here I was thinking I'd made a funny!

Yup. I know a lot about failing at humor, so I can relate to that awkward feeling. No worries, it'll fade with time. Possibly.

 

 

  Zoraptor said:

In this case paying the minimum amount is worse than pirating as a 0.01$ donation is in actual effect a -0.39$ donation due to the transaction fees.

 

Not that I'm defending the pirates mind you, if you're pirating indie games associated with charity then you're pretty much scum but I have seen a fair few people who appear to be really proud of having paid 1c for the bundle too and think they're awesome because they haven't pirated it.

LOL!

 

You're my new fave poster of the week.

[Nemo0071]

  Walsingham said:

  mkreku said:

Or maybe they're just lazy bums who think the whole payment part of the deal is too much trouble and instead opted to click ONE LINK to download it illegally.

 

Just a thought.

 

Point.

Ditto.

 

And keep in mind that not everyone likes "online payment" scenarios for whatever reason.

[Mamoulian War]

  Zoraptor said:

In this case paying the minimum amount is worse than pirating as a 0.01$ donation is in actual effect a -0.39$ donation due to the transaction fees.

 

Not that I'm defending the pirates mind you, if you're pirating indie games associated with charity then you're pretty much scum but I have seen a fair few people who appear to be really proud of having paid 1c for the bundle too and think they're awesome because they haven't pirated it.

 

 

Didn't knew about the 0.01 minimum price, but this is even more hillarious...

 

*sighs*

[Malcador]

  Deadly_Nightshade said:

That has to be one of the more disgusting things I've read recently. The link to their blog post about it is not working too so here's a functional one.

 

Nah, I've heard way more disgusting things than that, amazing the depravity of some people. Anyway, not that shocking, everything gets cracked or put up for download. Funniest thing I ever saw was scene releases of demos.

[Thorton_AP]

Well, it's not like these games were cracked

[Deadly_Nightshade]

Talking about cracked games, it looks like Steam lifted an .exe from pirate group for their Max Payne 2 release.

[WorstUsernameEver]

  Deadly_Nightshade said:

Talking about cracked games, it looks like Steam lifted an .exe from pirate group for their Max Payne 2 release.

 

LOL. That's pretty much all I have to say on the matter for now.

[Nemo0071]

  Deadly_Nightshade said:

Talking about cracked games, it looks like Steam lifted an .exe from pirate group for their Max Payne 2 release.

Funny and interesting...

[Purkake]

  Deadly_Nightshade said:

Talking about cracked games, it looks like Steam lifted an .exe from pirate group for their Max Payne 2 release.

Bah, EA did it for Command & Conquer 3 quite a while ago.

[Tigranes]

And GOG.com did it for some game or rather, as well.