by Debaser » Sun Sep 07, 2003 12:01 pm
Worm wrote:if everyone went hardcore pirate back then we could of eliminated big gaming completely.
Wouldn't have happened. Modem speed and internet user friendliness happened at exactly the same time that games began getting obnoxiously large, leaving widespread piracy beyond the "burn a copy of the guy down the hall's disk" variety the domain of people willing to invest the necessary time and hardware. Besides, at the very most they just would have driven everyone to the console market.
But, Kali's Tits, people, really, this isn't the recording industry. I'm not saying you shouldn't pirate every piece of software you can get your grubby little FTP client on. Free shit is free shit and I don't begrudge anyone free shit that doesn't come at my expense. But don't treat this like some sort of righteous crusade.
[quote="Worm"]if everyone went hardcore pirate back then we could of eliminated big gaming completely.[/quote]
Wouldn't have happened. Modem speed and internet user friendliness happened at exactly the same time that games began getting obnoxiously large, leaving widespread piracy beyond the "burn a copy of the guy down the hall's disk" variety the domain of people willing to invest the necessary time and hardware. Besides, at the very most they just would have driven everyone to the console market.
But, Kali's Tits, people, really, this isn't the recording industry. I'm not saying you shouldn't pirate every piece of software you can get your grubby little FTP client on. Free shit is free shit and I don't begrudge anyone free shit that doesn't come at my expense. But don't treat this like some sort of righteous crusade.