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"Pirate Games"

I'd like to bring up the topic of pirate games and whether it's a good or bad idea. Really it could be both ,we the public, get cheap games and the piraters make lots of money. But for the producer of games it is a pretty bad idea; they publish a game, it goes out in the shops a pirater will buy a copy, pirate it and sell it to a couple of mates who in turn copy it again and sell it to some of their mates and so on. Everyone is happy, they all have a copy of the game, except of course the producers who see the sales figures and think it's not selling well and look for other ideas or even other types of games, this can be good for us untill they run out of ideas, we then suffer. I, personally think it's alright coz I get good, cheap games but I'm just raising the point that it could affect us in the long run. Lets hope I'm wrong and the piraters keep on pirating.

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Kev

I'm in favour of software piracy. If something can be free, it should be. (That goes for all PC software) There are plenty of other ways softwar ecompanies could make for the lack of sales revenue, such as selling manuals, charging extortionate tech support phone bills and so on. Perhaps even government funding.

I read right through this thread and no one mentioned Bleem! software for the PC.

This emulation software is available from most software stores and allows you to emulated DC and PSX games on the PC. And it's legal, because it doesn't infringe on any copyright laws regarding hardware.

Seems to me that maybe Bleem was launched to put the pirates out of business, but that can't be the case because Sony wouldn't have tried to ban it in the courts, (or was that just a stunt to give it free advertising?).

tony wrote:
> Jimmy's bug

Should be fixed tomorrow

Not funny anymore

Hey I used to Know a Guy called kevin who pirated videogames, your not him are you????? He did dodgy pirate games with viruses on, still thats the chance you take when you get a pirate game, WINDOWS is unstable enough without viri.

Piracy isnt really acceptable these days, I just trade my old games in for new ones...it makes the new games cheaper...you cant part exchange a pirate game, and theres no refund or guarantee of its quality.

Nice quote.

I suppose Sid Meiers Pirates! Is one, Monkey Islands...
Err.

Well...

Pirate games?

Should be more of them I say.

When was the last time we saw a decent pirate game?

I want to sail the seas, drinking rum and looking for treasure!



meka_dragon: Why do sticks have so many wrong ends?

Jimmy's bug

Should be fixed tomorrow

yes it has!!

everything is taking each others names and using them, making up names, chatting stuff.

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EVERyTHING HaS GONE CRAzY

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