LOL. I've decided to keep my mouth shut about what I don't understand from now on. Let's just say, that for once ( that I am about to admit to anyway), he was in the right and I was in the wrong. It doesn't happen very often so it stung all the worse.
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LOL. I've decided to keep my mouth shut about what I don't understand from now on. Let's just say, that for once ( that I am about to admit to anyway), he was in the right and I was in the wrong. It doesn't happen very often so it stung all the worse.
Downloading and shoplifting are different animals. Obviously with shoplifting there is a discernible cost/loss of revenue which other customers ultimately pay for. I'm simply suggesting that downloading has a different effect. Anyone, such as yourself, who can see no difference between downloading and shoplifting are unlikely to entertain this suggestion.
I presume these sentences were printed off and put in a nice, mounted frame with the title "See...it CAN happen" !!
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The main difference seems to be the guts/nerve required to carry out the operation - those brave keyboard warriors, eh?
To suggest that downloading does not result in a loss of revenue is a moral cop-out. If the material has value, there is a loss of revenue. If it has no value, it wouldn't be downloaded.
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Many years ago I did copy games, and now feel quite guilty about that. Many PC developers have had to switch to developing console-only games because of piracy. Indie developers who rely solely on their games for income often see piracy rates of 90%.
So I make a point of buying all my games, including the ones I'd previously copied - and since most PC games are fairly cheap (especially the twice weekly sales on the download service Steam, where you can sometimes pick up games for as little as a quid) there's really no excuse. You can easily buy a game a week for less than the price of a pint without even having to go to the shop.
So I make a point of buying all my games, including the ones I'd previously copied - and since most PC games are fairly cheap (especially the twice weekly sales on the download service Steam, where you can sometimes pick up games for as little as a quid) there's really no excuse. You can easily buy a game a week for less than the price of a pint without even having to go to the shop.
As for RMCF's question, I think really we are all geeks in some shape or form and are enthusiastic about something that is regarded as a bit silly or alien to others. It could be gaming, coin collecting, bird watching or even just sports.
E.g. I have no interest at all in sport and I regard jersey wearing, crying at matches supporters with as much suspicion and confusion as they probably regard me, entering as I am my fourth decade, and still getting orgasmically excited at the latest experimental prog noise band from Saskatchewan or wherever.
E.g. I have no interest at all in sport and I regard jersey wearing, crying at matches supporters with as much suspicion and confusion as they probably regard me, entering as I am my fourth decade, and still getting orgasmically excited at the latest experimental prog noise band from Saskatchewan or wherever.
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Ohhhh! Do tell Caveat!
Viva la difference, people love to pidgeonhole others and expect them to conform to their assigned "image". Squares should be square.
I regularly get a kick from revealing to my fellow suit wearers that I was out on the dirt bike or off caravanning or going to a heavy metal show - now I'm more boring and conventional than most, but its gas to see how it "throws" them to do something untypical.
Getting back on topic, I'm looking forward to when the young fellas are old enough to demand a console, and I get to skip 10 generations of technology and immerse in the latest system going at the time.
I regularly get a kick from revealing to my fellow suit wearers that I was out on the dirt bike or off caravanning or going to a heavy metal show - now I'm more boring and conventional than most, but its gas to see how it "throws" them to do something untypical.
Getting back on topic, I'm looking forward to when the young fellas are old enough to demand a console, and I get to skip 10 generations of technology and immerse in the latest system going at the time.
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Let's face it, gaming is pretty mainstream now. "Modern Warfare 2" - an over 18s game - sold 2 million copies in the UK in its first week of release alone. That's an astonishing figure. Shame people are buying it rather than a genuinely good game, but there you go.
