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"Copying games"

Copying games, I think is a fraud. People go out and buy games honestly, however some people copy games just to make a bit a money, for one it is illegal and companies that spent all their time are being ripped off by people who would do anything to get money. This effects the future of gaming considerably, as people are copying games the developers are losing money, and if they have no money, no more games. Most people don't know of the rule of "Copyright".

Copying games, I think is a fraud. People go out and buy games honestly, however some people copy games just to make a bit a money, for one it is illegal and companies that spent all their time are being ripped off by people who would do anything to get money. This effects the future of gaming considerably, as people are copying games the developers are losing money, and if they have no money, no more games. Most people don't know of the rule of "Copyright".

"spammy" simply states the obvious

:)

yup, you've taken what could have been a good topic, and made it not good

*Adds spanny to Buddy List*

Piracy is a crime. Videogame piracy profits go towards drugs, prostitution, terrorism and were directly responsible for the subsidence at 28, NutGrove Road, Warrington in 1998.

By copying games, you are not only stealing, you are depriving people who care about the industry access to cheaper games. Not to mention making games developers go without food, in some cases having to sell their own children into slavery to make ends meet.

The longterm consquences of videogame piracy are hardly ever discussed, but already we are seeing the effects. SquareSoft, possibly one of the largest developers in the world, was recently forced to merge with rivals Enix in a bid to make ends meet. TakeTwo are able to acquire smaller companies cheaper than ever before. Rage have gone bust, Virgin Interactive are rumoured to be going under, and we're only 3 weeks into the new year.

By merging companies, we are losing diversity, we are losing competition, and eventually we'll be in a position where Bill Gates buys them all up at just the right price leaving XBox as the only available console for which games are being produced.

His monopoly will be complete.

SO DON'T COPY GAMES!!

FantasyMeister wrote:

> By merging companies, we are losing diversity, we are losing
> competition, and eventually we'll be in a position where Bill Gates
> buys them all up at just the right price leaving XBox as the only
> available console for which games are being produced.


Argh! The foreseen apocalypse!!

Virgin never recovered from Toonstruck.

They made one of the greatest games ever, but they shouldn't have.

I love that game.

Bonafide wrote:
> Argh! The foreseen apocalypse!!

Not really, we've had plenty of warning. The Bible in Revelations has always gone on about the Four Horsemen. Scholars have always interpreted them as angels, but of course the real explanation is that we're talking about Sega, Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft.

Nostradamus always had hallucinations featuring 'Hisler', which of course was incorrectly believed to be 'Hitler', when in fact it was ancient latin, a direct translation, 'His-' meaning 'Bill' and '-ler' meaning 'Gate'.

:D

I so believe you

i dont sell the games i copy but i do copy games.

once my mate copied one from the library i thought it was quite funny

FantasyMeister wrote:
> 'Hitler', when in fact it was
> ancient latin, a direct translation, 'His-' meaning 'Bill' and '-ler'
> meaning 'Gate'.


And suddenly 'portam' and 'ler' are the same word.
The circle is complete.