>I DON'T SEED TORRENTS, ANON!

>>29244964
Me neither, Dash.

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>>29244964
>>29245033

>>29244964
keeping all the futa/gay POV vids to yourself, i see...

Torrenting is literally no different than stealing. DRM is completely justified when pirates keep trying to steal products

>>29244964
K. You can keep inside my torrent of seed for yourself.

>>29245156
especially when i DL some free linux distro

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>>29244964
Here you go, OP.

>>29245356
I wish I could see this when waking up in the morning

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>>29244964
I downloaded a justice album then verizon called to yell at me ;[. No more torrents for this ip.

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>>29245363
Me too, Anon.. me too..

>>29245356
Yeah, I'd love to see Twilight like that in the morning.
Occasionally I wake up with my plushie staring at me and that's nice.

>>29245363
>>29245469
Just create a tulpa already, you whining pansies.

>>29245524
I got my plushie a couple of weeks ago and it scares me constantly when it's dark or I see it's reflection in the monitor trim.

>>29245536
>scared of a plushie
That's just sad anon

>>29245536
That's odd. What kind of plushie is it? I could see a poorer quality one being off putting.

>>29245156
>when I torrent a free Arma mod through a link set up by the mod's creator to download their mod, that's literally theft

Oh high there, out of touch uni IT department staff, I didn't realize you browsed 4chan.

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>>29245532
I tried back in about 2012 when I worked unloading trucks 12 hours a day. Would just force that whole time with her near me. Got really far along. Had just about everything down but sent. Could feel her against my leg and hear her. But shit went south fast. I started to hear voices that weren't hers. Screaming, waking me up out of a dead sleep and I'd be covered in sweat. Took about a month for that all to stop once I quit. I just don't have the proper mind for that as I am severely depressed and bipolar. Creating a tulpa again will only lead to disaster in my case.

>>29245594
Scent*

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>>29245562
I posted her on the holiday thread.

>>29245465
Legit question here. I've never torrented anything, but if I ever do it will mostly be obscure foreign shit that isn't easily available in the US. Is anyone likely to give a shit about that or are they more interested in going after people who are downloading Hollywood films and other popular media?

>>29245594
Wow. That is awful. I feel sorry for you. And for your tulpa, who is probably dead now. You are the second guy I know of who had issues with tupperware. Both of them worked on imposition.

>>29245614
Your isp will be able to know regardless. I hear what gets you is the trackers though, and those can be manually removed.

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>>29245536

>>29244964
>torrenting anything
I always knew Dash was retarded.
Enjoy your free virus.

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>>29245669
That's so true to life.

>>29245673
>he thinks torrents are exclusively for illegal downloading
>he also doesn't have antivirus software installed

When will this meme die?

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>>29244964
That's fine, I do enough for the both of us.

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>>29245673

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>>29245156
Fucking suck my cock, dude.

who here cabal (BTN / PTP / PTH)

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>>29245745

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I seed either until the ratio is 2.00 or for an entire week depending on how popular the torrent is.

>>29245736
>all antivirus software are absolutely perfect and there isn't a single way anyone could code a virus to get around them
When will this meme die?
Also I couldn't give less of a fuck about it being illegal downloading but be honest with yourself, that's what its used for 99% of the time.

>>29246273
faget

>>29245592
Obviously not the kind of torrenting I'm referring to, you pedantic fucktard.

>>29245770
You're a software thief, literally no better than a lowly nigger stealing a beer from the convenience store. Your input is worth less than nothing.

>>29247067
>stealing something with literally infinite supply
>stealing something with a finite supply
There's a pretty big difference there. I admit that it's immoral, whatever that means, but it's not as if I'm actively removing money or value. I'm merely not giving it to them.

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>>29245156
I steal because DRM exists. Also because people get real salty when I mention that.
>>29244964
Me neither, Dash.

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>>29244964
>mfw the torrent finishes, and I stop seeding it immediately, taking joy in the fact that I will never reciprocate their kindness

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>>29247067
Heh.

Not paying for a game is just like stealing, goy! You're like one of those schwartzas you goyim like to complain about so much!
t. (((You)))

Fuck off and die.

>>29247096
>>29247196
>taking a product without paying for it isn't stealing

Nice mental gymnastics, you repulsive fucking niggers. The company loses what money it would have made from you BUYING the product because you decided to take it without paying. This isn't difficult nor open to any kind of alternative interpretation. Stealing is stealing, no matter what way you try to justify it.

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While piracy is a topic, my collage teacher bought up the question "Should cultural appropriation be considered theft?" My response was that since the person appropriated doesn't lose their culture in the process theft isn't the right word to use, a better word would be piracy. The class laughed and we jokingly called it cultural piracy.
/blog

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>>29247429
>The company loses what money it would have made from you BUYING the product because you decided to take it without paying.
What if I wasn't going to buy the product anyways?

For example, you see a book in a library for sale, and you decide not to buy it because of the price. Later on, you see the same book abandoned out in the wilderness. How does picking up the book affect the company?

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>>29247449
>colleges still teaching SJW shit
why is our educational system so laughably stupid?

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>>29247429
>a pirated copy is automatically a lost sale
kek, get a load of this stupid nigger.

1) i bought a copy of a game, but the CDs got lost or destroyed over time. pirate a copy of a game i already owned.
2) i never intended to buy the game in the first place nor would i have bought it if piracy didnt exist
3) i wanted to test the game to see if it was worth purchasing and then purchase it after pirating it

It's easy to be against piracy when your parents pay everything :^)

>>29247507

Notice he didn't say where anon. It's pretty much in most first world uni. At least as long as you don't advocate the boycott of israel goods you can hate SJW stuff all you want.

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>>29247572
a friend of mine recently got some degree by taking an online college course. they made him go through some social justice shit about how privileged white people are and how much the world suffers because they exist; all taught as facts. then the very next lesson pretty much discredited all of those lessons by teaching actual history.

why the fuck does it exist as a fact if real facts discredit it? in the same fucking lessons no less. what kind of half-assed academia is that?

>>29247526
Why would you pay for something you already own? I never get retards saying this. "I pirated this for free and then decided to go and pay for as a show of support!" It's the same as when a friend gives you a recliner and you then go to La-Z-Boy and pay for it so they can keep making the chairs.

>>29247598
My Police Foundations program included a course in "Diversity and Aboriginal Peoples" which was exactly what it sounds like. We got to watch a video about the plight of the poor red man as we saw footage from native reserve #146364 in Buttfuck Nowhere, Canada, that looked a fucking 3rd world country.

And, of course, that class was taught by a fat dyke. My privilege was thoroughly checked.

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>>29247641
It's based on the "vote with your wallet" ideal. If you like something, you buy it or products about it to show you want more of it. That's how some movies got reboots or sequels when DVD boxes of them go out.

Like ghost busters.

>>29247526

I actually did this, then the game industry got to what it is. Now I just wait for steam sales or humble bundles.

>>29247598

Because at that point they can't see real facts anymore anon. We see reality better then they do. The horsefuckers are more sane then they are.

https://youtu.be/qlpODYhnPEo?t=121

>>29247526
>3) i wanted to test the game to see if it was worth purchasing and then purchase it after pirating it
Fucking this! If there's no demo I feel no guilt about pirating.
So many shit games today with misleading trailers and terrible pc optimization.

>>29247641
>as a show of support
how do you not get it if you said the reason in the same sentence?

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>>29247652
what bothers me the most is they act like indians would have been fine if no one showed up. they were still in the tribal age when everyone else was in renaissance. even if for some reason the entire planet agreed not to take over and settle in the americas, eventually a jumbo jet was going to fly over them. do they not think that would start some shit?

>>29247657
But why would pay for something you ALREADY OWN! Wouldn't you, I don't know, buy something else they made? That way you aren't being redundant. Just like I don't need six .22 guns I don't need 3 copies of Crysis 2.

>>29247682
Can't look up people playing it on Jewtube? Reviews can be retarded but if I had seen the gameplay of Mass Effect I never would have touched it. Then again I've seen people argue demos can be misleading as a defense for piracy.

>>29247718
Because it's the most shallow excuse I've ever heard that if I like it I'll pay for it later. It's masturbatory and only there to try and hold a moral high ground yet I doubt any who say this actually go and pay for that game.

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>>29247855
>Because it's the most shallow excuse
just about every product that exists has a 30 day money back guarantee. games dont. in fact games are pretty much the only product that doesnt.

if someone doesnt deserve money for their product, they dont get it. thats called capitalism.

>i doubt anyone really does it
thats nice but your personal feelings dont change facts.

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>>29247855
>But why would pay for something you ALREADY OWN!
>ALREADY OWN!
>Pirated it.

I mean I guess you "own it" in both pirate terms and how there are no physical copies anymore, but stop being stupid anon. If you pirate it then you don't "own" the game, you own the pirated version. No dev support unless you get a pirate patch.

>Just like I don't need six .22 guns I don't need 3 copies of Crysis 2.

Either retarded or Troll. Going with troll because this is pretty damn stupid.

>Can't look up people playing it on Jewtube?

Reviews only go so far. Gameplay vids are good, but if you watch the game 100% then you've basically have played it.

>Because it's the most shallow excuse I've ever heard that if I like it I'll pay for it later.

What part of "Trying to fund a squeal or more of the same game" did you not get fucktard?

10/10 you got me to post twice.

>>29247901

Thank god Steam has the 2 week/2 hours return function. Kinda BS they had to be forced to put it in though. Then again I blame the market for removing demos and stores not allowing refunds after "muh floppies!"

>>29247901
Many products and stores have stipulations on how you can get your money back. The fact of what? You can't prove how many people pirated then payed for a game unless they admit it. I find it hard to believe someone will pay for something they already own. I also doubt the "support" of a few pirates weighs much against the larger number of people who never pirated it and bought it anyway based on reviews, gameplay footage, etc. Just admit you wanted something for free, I care that people are afraid to admit that than say they are trying to say they're protect their wallets then paying for something they own. I do own pirated movies, I don't say I'm going to buy it now to support Universal Pictures.

>>29247995
Other than a receipt of sale how do you not own it?
>No dev support
Oh, well boo fucking hoo. It's the same game! And like I said before the amount of people who bought without piracy outweighs the number who did by factors. You're saying, "I pirate but pay for what I like," with no proof you do so you can sit on a moral high horse.

There is a board for this kind of discussion and it's not /mlp.
sage & hide

>>29248154
Stop.

Please dont listen to the shaming paid shills. They have been shsming piracy way harder these days in an effort to make users allow themselves to be scammed.
They out themselves by supporting shitty games and media tactics and apologizing for companies saying it is fair to sell garbage.

>>29248374
Games are better than they've ever been, gamers don't know what the fuck they want and just like to shit over anything that's new because they can't take off their nostalgia goggles

the only games i pirate are obscure old games
you know, back in ms-dos/ps1 era? those games aren't as accesible as before much less now
it's really "stealing" when the product isn't on sale anymore?

>>29248502
Holy shit now THIS is proper bait.

>>29248502
Gotta agree with this.
99% of the games on the NES and other old consoles were fucking garbage.
There is a reason the nerd is STILL able to make videos.

>>29248502
>Games are better than they've ever been
in graphics. story-wise, they aren't that good
they know kids these days know dick, and mature players always have the nostalgia googles on, but most of games these days are just quantity over quality.
even indie PC games are better than 3A console games.
what does that say about gaming? one thing says: it's fucked

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>>29248599
This, I never would have played Populous ever again if I hadn't torrented it.

>>29245808
Hi /ptg/

>>29245156
Kid's with no jobs and underdeveloped morals torrent cause, c'mon, what else are they gunna do beg their parents to buy them autistic animoo?
Once people get a bit older and wealthier they can support media production companies they like, but all the mass media distribution companies act like abusive bf's.
It's pretty off-putting.
That's why I've gone indie.
Except for the pon's.

>>29245634
I kinda got the opposite problem. I've got head mates now.
I like most of them though, so whatever. I just have to remember not to talk to them or about them in public.

>>29248620
i rate this bait 4/10
could be better

>>29245634
>Tupperware
I'm fucking dying.
"THE TUPPERWARE MADE ME CRAZY!"

>>29247185
You know your torrent client has settings so you can just never seed at all, right?

>>29247641
La-Z-Boy spent a lot of money producing the comfy chair generating wormhole, but they knew it would all be worth it. The world was going to love these chairs.
Towards the end of development it was discovered that the wormholes could be opened by hobbyists for no extra cost. All the research and development investments. There was no way to ensure a return.
The company would be ruined, but to their surprise, once people started getting these amazing wormhole-chairs, they started coming into La-Z-Boy to pay as a show of support.

I'm using invite-only tracker with permanent ban for leeching (also temporary ban and warning to person who gave you invite).
It's slow, but they upload everything 5-7 days faster. Big deal for games and movies. Also some interesting leaks and spyware.

>>29248632
Do you think I could donate enough to Bethesda for them to start making good games again?

>>29248632
>even indie PC games are better than 3A console games.
>what does that say about gaming? one thing says: it's fucked
That's true. That happens when you try to
>quantity over quality
on something that require creativity.
p.s.
Hyper Light Drifter is good game, btw. Try it if you haven't already.

>>29249270
which tracker?

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>>29245465
>get a VPN
>continue torrenting

>>29247504
>Later on, you see the same book abandoned out in the wilderness. How does picking up the book affect the company?

Software is rarely abandoned. It's created, copied, and destroyed.

You find an old CD lying around in a library, or find an old copy of Photoshop on a HDD in your schools dumpster, fine: good for you.

Torrent sites are not a fucking forest full of abandoned books, because if they were anything like your WRONG analogy, they'd have only a finite supply.

Torrent sites are illegal printing houses where they make clones of your fucking hypothetical book, with limitless supplies of paper, and release those copies for free without authorization or compensation of the original author or publisher.

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>>29249926
all this piracy and the MAFIAA is still worth billions.
really makes you think.

>>29247526
>3) i wanted to test the game to see if it was worth purchasing and then purchase it after pirating it

You mean wait three years for it to barely be worth anything during a sale? Fuck off faggot

Who the fuck cares

>>29249833
What's a VPN

>>29251024
Its stands for virtual private network. In laymen's terms it masks your ip address so your internet provider cant find you. however to get a good one you have to pay and some dont let you torrent.

This post is my Intellectual Property. It took me time and effort to create.

The price of reading it is $20. Pay me or you're a thief.

I actively pirate because I legitimately want the art-for-profit industries to become unprofitable and die out

I mean would you rather have the MLP comics done by Fosgitt or Pencils? I know who i'd pick

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>>29251185
forgot my image

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And don't forget this little monster

Corporate control actively, willfully, legitimately makes things worse. We could still have had Faust directing the show if they hadn't meddled to the point of her getting fed up.

As long as art is owned by large publishing industries and the actual "creators" get hardly any say in what happens with the things they create, and hardly see any of the money that it generates, then I will not be giving up a single dime for anything that can be torrented

>>29249926
Over 8 hours later. Finally replies.

>Software is rarely abandoned. It's created, copied, and destroyed.
It's still a copy of the book. Picking it up doesn't affect the company if you weren't gonna buy it regardless. The rest, though accurate I guess, is irrelevant.

>>29247641
>Why would you pay for something you already own?
Multiplayer
Extra features

You are a retard.
I don't understand people like you, you seriously have to be either 12 years old or some majority shareholder at EA in order to think up dumb shit like this.

>>29249926
>Software is rarely abandoned
An entire library of 90's software would like a word with you.

>>29247023
>he doesn't use a paid antivirus
>he thinks commercial antivirus software is vulnerable to the kind of cheap garbage malware you'd get torrenting from shady places

The only way you'll be hacked using a good AV is if you use Kaspersky, because Kaspersky is spying on you for the FSB.

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>>29251295
>All those hours of Windows 3D Movie Maker coming back to me.

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>>29249926
I would really hate to have those multi-national billion dollar companies, with consistent and ever increasing anti-consumer policies. to lose money.

>>29250967
>doesnt know creators get cents on the dollar
>doesnt know 95% of the price goes to people who didnt even work on the product
arent you a cutie.

>>29251295
how many people castle of the winds here?

>>29247526
I do all of the above. 3 before almost all my purchases, and 2 is very common aswell. 1 has only happened twice.

>>29247641
wow, you are a fucking idiot.

>>29251519
happened to me multiple times with diablo 2. stupid play cd.

>>29251529
I just ran the D2loader. But the need for the play cd was later removed in one of the official patches.

>>29245156
The only people DRMs hurt is the legally paying customers.

>>29247641
kys falafam

>>29251185
This fucking much. Best post ever!

>>29251329
>Can't think of a rebuttal
>"Fuck le trillionaire corprerations, mang! :D"

This is what every pirate's argument devolves into.

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>>29244964
Neither do I. Never did and never will.

>>29251581
Incorrect. If you legally obtained the product, then you have nothing to worry about. DRM only prevents unauthorized copies from working.

>>29251680
>Can't think of a way to defend the shitty anti-consumer policies which only effect legal purchasers of their product.
>"Fuck these hippies man"
This is what every corporate shill turns into.

>>29251703
Yes, I love only being able only play my games when I'm connected to the internet t. not EA. I especially love it for single player games. It's not like they'll abandon those servers, or have horrible up keeping, several years down the line.

>>29251185
I somewhat agree. But I think the art industry should be funded by subsidy from the government.

In other words, all Amerifats pay taxes so comic artists can make free comics for everyone.

>>29251746
Internet connections are now commonplace. This 2017, not 2000. It's no longer unreasonable to require checks for authenticity through internet connections to ensure companies aren't having their property stolen, and if they are, lock out functionality unless a legitimate license is purchased

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>>29251750
American art subsidies and large scale commissions died with shit like the Piss Cross. It's not coming back.

>>29247526
>2) i never intended to buy the game in the first place nor would i have bought it if piracy didnt exist
This is the case with me. If I couldn't download comics, cartoons and games, I simply would never have gotten them.

>>29251761
You disgust me.

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>>29251761
Yes, not intrusive at all.

>>29245156
Hey, fresh out of college working at that software company and suddenly changing your stance on copyright infringement?

>>29251771
People's sense of entitlement disgusts me. People think they have the right to steal something that somebody or a team spent time creating just because it's a digital medium and can be effortlessly copied. Companies have a right to protect what's theirs. Freeloaders have no right to complain.

>>29251703
Hahaha, Adobe literally GAVE AWAY the license codes for their entire CS2 suite because the DRM in them caused their legit customers to stop being able to use it when their servers went down. Nice trollan though.

>>29244964
I usually just seed things that are rare enough to bother. Like porn.

>>29251750
I'm not sure I want the government to find out that their money is going toward grey-market bootleg porn of cartoon horses.

>>29251765
You know, with a lot of things (particularly books and comics), I actually hold off on pirating them if I'm fairly sure I'll enjoy them and I know I want a physical copy. A few of my favourite, buy-on-sight authors I've found by way of pirating their works first.

Speaking of which, Neil Gaiman discussed this a few years back: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/509253-when-the-web-started-i-used-to-get-really-grumpy

>>29251783
Your reasoning only disgusts me even more. Either you don't realize what the problem with intrusive measures like those is or you are just trolling. I am going with the latter.

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>>29251783
>He thinks creative teams receive the bulk of the money. He thinks they revive a fair share.
What naivety you posses.

>>29245594
>>29245634
>>29249169
>tulpas
i tried to create tulpa 4 years ago but i was to much of a normie and i was busy with other stuffs. now i am very deppresed so It cannot be done without not thinking in my waifu.
my waifu is Applejack.

>>29251805
This is the main reason I don't pay for entertainment anymore. If I knew all my money went to the artists, musicians, programmers, writers, etc. involved I'd gladly pay. But since I know the majority goes to investors, suits, lawyers, CEOs, and whatever, I never will. I don't want to line the pockets of people whose activity I actively despise in the first place.

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>>29247641
>Why would you pay for something you already own?
I bought the steam copy of Medieval 2 after years of using a pirated copy because i could never get the pirated copy to patch right. I wanted to try some mods so i had to buy the game. Got it for 8 bucks on sale, its a great game.

>>29247805
Fun fact: ~95% of deaths in Americas that can be attributed to arrival of Eurasian peoples were caused by diseases and the soon-to-be colonizers had little control over their spread, considering their limited knowledge. Emerging Mississippian civilization fell apart even before it had any contact with Europeans - diseases were faster.

>>29244964
Nobody's ever going to seed you Rainbow!

>>29251939
So we were superior to them. That's how the world operates. The homo neanderthalis died out because it got genocided by the homo erectus.

Don't want to die out? Start being a winner.

>>29252020
>so we were superior to them
Genetically? Outside of resistance to some Eurasian diseases, not really. If there were any dangerous American diseases, the Spanish probably wouldn't cope any better. It's not that Europeans were superior, it's that they had superior diseases.

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>>29251680
other than this listed here >>29247526
1) theres zero conclusive evidence as to just how damaging piracy is, if it is at all. the stats are pulled from the companies ass and completely ignores any possible benefits which ill list later.
2) if piracy was truly that damaging then the companies with the easiest to pirate games would be failing. however, the opposite has been true. companies who go heavy on DRM soon find themselves out of business. rip maxis; you didnt deserve the anal rape from EA.
3) as i said, there are benefits to piracy as well. aside from getting people to actually test your game and possibly buy it, it also provides free publicity. word of mouth is the most powerful advertisement these days. if your friend says "hey, this game was good, you should buy it," theyre far more likely to get it than if the company says so. similarly, if the game is shit word will get around and the company wont make money. therefore the good companies thrive and the bad ones die.
4) convenience. the more of a pain in the ass it is to get something and to make it work the more likely theyll find a way to circumvent that shit from happening. a few quick examples are movies, some of which take 6 months to go from theaters to dvd. people will pirate it because its taking too fucking long. another example on dvds is some movies it takes you fucking 5-10 minutes of unskippable bullshit just to start the damn movie. a pirated copy starts immediately. games with heavy DRM sometimes interfere with the actual gameplay. even if you have a legit copy it could run like shit. similar situation happens with online-only games. the anti-piracy countermeasures often damage the game for the people who actually pay for it.
5) companies spend millions on anti-piracy research, counter-measures, lawyers, etc. i would bet my bottom dollar they spend more on anti-piracy than they lose to piracy; which as ive already stated has no conclusive evidence for or against.

>>29245156
You wouldn't download a car!!

>>29251238
No rebuttal to this?

>Torrent sites are illegal printing houses where they make clones of your fucking hypothetical book, with limitless supplies of paper, and release those copies for free without authorization or compensation of the original author or publisher.
That makes no difference whatsoever. You'd just go to the printing house and again, pick up a copy of the book, or if that analogy doesn't work, a copy of the software. There is no lost sale because there was no intention of making a purchase in the first place. If the price is too high and other copies weren't available, then you'd simply go without the product.

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>>29252822
If only I could download the exact specs on everything my cars had, I'd be fucking set

And I don't even know somebody with a decent milling machine, anyways

>>29244964
>creating storms is a way to store and share information by pegasi

>>29254312
>smoke signal aren't enough
>it must be tornados of signals
brutal.jph

>>29244964
Who the fuck would seed a torrent?