By that logic piracy cannot cause damages above the retail value of a single copy regardless of how many times it was downloaded because ultimately they only stole 1 game.
They really think we’re that stupid… not without good reasons unfortunately.
Most of those crimes are for poor people anyways.
By that logic piracy cannot cause damages above the retail value of a single copy regardless of how many times it was downloaded because ultimately they only stole 1 game.
Yeah…
The problem is you think the logic is wrong and not the punishment for illegal downloading should be at absolute most, the cost of a personal copy. Even if you made the download 100 times for reinstalls.
Which honestly, is how it works…
The thing is people that don’t seed are assholes, and for every person you seed to, you just distributed it to them. And if/when that can be quantified, that’s when huge charges rack up.
Like there was a porn company that seeded their own videos, logged IPs, and anyone they could identify was sued for distributing to every other person, regardless of if they could be identified. I think that shook out with greatly diminished charges, but I can’t remember
As far as how to fix that,change the laws so instead of user, it’s percent of data. 100% seed ratio would mean you took a copy, and provided a copy. Which would make most piracy not worth the effort of rights holders to enforce. Although Felony theft limits can be as low as $200 in some states and under 1,000 but that being so low due to inflation is a totally different problem.
This is also why only one person owns the 2022 ford f150.
Ahh the old foxnews approach…no reasonable person blah blah
Jedi mind tricks only work on the simple minded.
Indeed, but it seems like they have been incentivized with all the idiots in charge wielding their magic wands lol
I have two $5 bills in my hand. That’s impossible!
I hate the new age of digital games. soon physical games will be antiques. most already are. I gave away all my old PS2 games, I wonder how much they and my N64 games would have been worth.
I don’t. As someone with OG Pirate Bay merch this is the moral justification I needed to get back into emulating. Granted, I’m still playing the same snes games I emulated 20 years ago lmao.
Here I was, using TPB all these years and I didn’t notice they were selling merch back then. LMAO.
Before they got arrested IIRC. They sold stickers. The one on my old bedroom door is still at my parents place!
They’re trying to say that owning a copy of a video game is not possible as if it hasn’t been the way it always was for decades until they changed that.
as if it hasn’t been the way it always was for decades
until they changed thatand still is, despite their fucking liesFTFY.
Exactly why only one person owns the Game of Thrones books and another guy owns the Game of Thrones series. What a loser argument this guy has.
That’s the exact argument…
If you buy a book from GoT, you own the physical pieces of paper the book is printed on, not the words. The reason it costs more than blank pages, is the words printed on there. But you don’t “own” the words. Just the pages that have the word printed on.
If you buy an electronic copy, you don’t “own” anything except the rights to have a copy of that.
Same for games.
You don’t “own” the game, you own the physical media the game is on. If there’s no physical media, then there’s nothing you own.
The reason it’s the same for games and books, is why it’s the same for TV, music, and every other form of media.
The reason it’s the same for games and books, is why it’s the same for TV, music, and every other form of media.
every other form of media where the license to use is terrible. The fact you need a digital store to download the data that “doesn’t fit” on a disc is already crossing that line imo, but also. I am totally fine with them a digital download to be honest, but I am not going to accept them turning the ecosystem into a monopoly. No disk no buy for me. At least on pc there are multiple vendors. They will lose me as a user if they will only sell digital licenses from their own store. We’re finally getting rid that shit on mobile, no way I’m going along with it.
Great, no one is making you buy them…
And if enough don’t, they’ll stop doing it.
Zero idea why you felt the need to tell me you don’t like it, obviously no consumer likes this.
Holy shit, are their lawyers really so incompetent they don’t understand the difference between holding the copyright and owning a copy? They need to get a refund for the Cracker Jacks boxes they got their law school diplomas out of!
Maybe the singular owner could put copies online for others to have
Were these the same geniuses that created the last Wu-Tang album?
You don’t “own the game” on physical media either…
You own the physical disc/cartridge, that contains the code to run the game. Not the code on the disc/cartridge. If you “owned” the code on a PS3 disc, that would mean it would be legal for you to make copies and distribute to others.
People don’t understand what the problem is, so they’re complaining about the wrong thing.
What we need, is the rights to the installation media. If a game is going to be removed from a store, consumers should have a period of time where they can get the installation media in a way they can archive.
For games that use a companies servers, that’s a different problem. Saying they need to port it to user servers is a big ask, so maybe something like a minimum support life? Like up front on the box (really, storefronts) “servers guaranteed till at least ____”. Companies would have an incentive to extend that date, because the further out it is, the more likely for late adapters to pay more.
And if a game does better than expected, there’s nothing stopping them from adding more time. If a game has a countdown clock, people can’t really act surprised.
But that’s the cost of “live service” multiplayer games where people playing the game costs resources for the company, even if that’s just keeping servers up for people to play on. If people don’t like it, there’s games that use peer hosting, but that comes with its own issues.
If enough people just buy peer hosted multiplayer games because those don’t have enddates, then we’ll start seeing improvements with it. And that’s better for all of us, because that’s the real solution for the industry.
