Quote from Aubog007;969068:
Point being, there is absolutely no justification for stealing, unless you have a damn good selfless reason
Justification: It's cheaper, it feels good, no consequences, extra money to spend on other things, and a lot of it.
Why must my logic follow everyone's moral rules? I do what works best.
Also, privacy. Pfft, like how private facebook is or how private your phone lines are?
No such thing as true privacy, not like i care either, i have nothing to hide.
I don't have a Facebook and I virtually never call people. Only when life requires it. Literally the only time I allow my privacy to potentially be invaded is when I just don't care, such as posting under the same username here all the time. That also takes a very "all or nothing" approach that is simply unrealistic.
Sometimes people have to think about the future in order to see how their present actions are going to help them.
Giving Gamestop $60 once a month isn't going to change a thing, really. If you're lucky and do it for years on end, they might start stocking one more copy of one more game.
Want to stop piracy? Pirate everything, spend your extra money on campaigning against piracy, and when you convince even 1,000 very suggestible people not to pirate again, you've done 1,000 times more than you ever could've alone and now you have free games, too. This is the logic of getting things done. Otherwise, you're really just paying $60 to feel good about yourself.
Technological abstraction also reduces the amount of guilt one would feel when they consider whether they should steal or not; stealing via piracy doesn't feel like running off with a box of a video game out of a shop.
I'd actually feel better taking a physical copy with no consequences. Am I seriously supposed to feel guilty about having free things? Maybe I just feel life is too short to concern yourself with things like that. There's a good reason people get a rush from shoplifting. They certainly aren't feeling
bad about it.
This culture of piracy you see around these days is indeed in part due to a generation of self-indulgent kids growing up on the internet, used to thinking "I should just be able to get it for free, because I can and I won't get caught."
I can't say much about the culture of it because I often disagree with the people I side with. I definitely don't think it "should" be this way, but what a waste to not make use of it when it is.