XmortisX :
I try, I like...then I will buy. But don't charge me $60 for a 4 hour game. Don't charge me $30 for a dvd that is 5 years old. Don't charge me $300 for a software that I can find free and it does same things only need a plug in or two for extra features. I admit I pirate to test not to sell or distribute...So If I walk into dealership say "I would like to test drive that car" and sales person says "no, buy or get out." I see a friend with same car so I test drive his/hers to see whats its like cops are going to pull me over and say "Hey BMW is suing you and your under arrest for driving there car before buying it!"???
Sorry if its confusing trying to make an example
Everyone keeps trying to make this example, but that is completely faulty logic. First off, not every dealer allows test drives. Chances are you aren't going into a Ferrari dealership and expecting them to hand over the keys for a test drive. Second, any dealer that does let you test drive does so of their own free will. There is no law or anything that entitles anyone to a free test drive. Having a test drive is a priviledge afforded by the dealership. Third, if you are allowed a test drive, it is usually with a dealer representative in the car with you and they're going to limit what you are allowed to do with that car and how long you're going to get to play around with it. You're not going to get to take it to a race track and run it for half an hour, an hour, running the engine to max revs or top speed, testing out the limits of breaking and all that good stuff. Finally, if you go and test drive your friend's car, that's just that. There isn't somehow a second car being driven around. The accurate comparison would be going over to your friend's house and using their copy of that software, watching thier movie, listening to their song, not stealing a copy claiming you'll return it once you've used it and decided if you want to keep it or not. You can't go into a dealership and drive away with a car if they won't let you test drive it and then tell them you'll bring it back and pay if you want to keep driving.
Look, I get it. Some of these companies are blatantly ripping off consumers. But the capitalist system works by individuals choosing what they do and don't pay for. And if you don't want to pay for it, you just find a way to do without it. You find free, legal, software and use that. You don't steal what you want and make thin excuses later. That's just juvenille. As I said in my previous post, I do sympathize with those who are being squeezed on all sides, but people have to get off this feeling of entitlement and just make due. Nine times out of ten these are luxury items being taken, things you don't need but just want. I have little sympathy for anyone who is caught and convicted for this kind of thing. It's just too easy nowadays to legally find out what you need to know about a movie, a game, a song, to make an effective decision about buying it or not. It's too easy to run it through until you've gotten as much use from it as you like and then just cliam you didn't like it so you can avoid the guilt of not paying. The companies may be bad for overcharging, but piracy is just worse. Rather than putting efforts into handling complaints, these companies focus on stopping pirates. The rest of us get burdened with loopholes to jump through either because of a legitimate concern, or because these companies are given a viable excuse. You know what piracy tells them? That the only problem they have is getting people to pay for it. Because by the logic offered, no one is going to pirate some bad movie, or bad program, or bad game. They're pirating the good stuff that is made well and enjoyable.
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