[citation][nom]tota[/nom]The example of the "robber" can not be taken too far, because:1) Sony is not an authority and2) a pirate is not stealing any object or property. A pirate is just copying, so in the worst case a pirate can reduce the chance of profit, and that is not allways the case.If you can call pirating a robbery, than you can also call DRM a robbery because DRM is reducing the ability of legitimate buyers to fully use what they've bought. Or maybe Sony and other big corporates are above the law because they've have the money to buy the lawyers, and then use the law to gain power and more money against the poor Joes that can't defend themselves against the DRM attack.But the worst case of all is that some people tend to defend this big guys because they are on the side of the law. That is sad because they tend to write the law when they get back the favours to the politicians they helped to the top. But morally they're not allways on the "good" side.There are legitimate ways of making profit of the good work the game developers do, but DRM is not one of those.If DRM had succeed on the music market we would lose all our music as soon as our devices died. Is that fair?Long after the PS3 hardware is on a junkyard it would be interesting and fair to be able to use the game I bought in another type of machine, on an emulator.Finally, this is a also a philosophy question:- Is the right of individual property above all society benefit? Can I oblige my clients to do whatever I want just because I am the copyright holder?[/citation]
Piracy is stealing. Copying is not Piracy. You have fuxored your terms. You have always been allowed to make a copy of music/disc's for backup. It is when you DISTRIBUTE that to others that you are committing an act of piracy, likewise the guy downloading it for free UNLESS he has already bought it and holds the license to the software or music is also committing piracy.
Have you ever bought a piece of software and noticed the EULA? This is what you are paying for, not the software itself. With enterprise software you can go download it for free off the net, you need to pay the vendor a license to be allowed to use it.
I agree that DRM sucks, I hate it. It isn't the solution because it doesnt address the PROBLEM. The PROBLEM being that people like you think that Piracy isn't stealing, no amount of "tech" can solve a mindset problem.
Stealing is stealing, just accept it. If I pirated something, which I have in the past, Ill just admit it, "Yeah I CBF buying that coz the first game was crap, so ill pirate it to check it out... yeah I stole it".
Just admit it.