Our Pirate Game is Getting Owned By App Store Pirates

Re:Our Pirate Game is Getting Owned By App Store Pirates by timcederman on Thursday October 01, 2009 @01:17PM (#855324)

A nice sensible response, with some well-reasoned observations.

The thing about piracy I've always found weird is how hysterical some people get about it for their medium and not others. For example, I am good friends with several software developers who get furious about people pirating their products, but have no qualms about having gigs of copied music personally.

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Re:Our Pirate Game is Getting Owned By App Store Pirates by jacquesm on Thursday October 01, 2009 @07:25PM (#856066)

I think the rationale people are using here is that it's the record companies they're pirating from not the artists.

Artists like Janis Ian ( http://www.janisian.com/article-internet_debacle.html (be sure to read the follow up)) have made that point quite eloquently.

Still, the basic position is one of hypocrisy, no contest there.

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Re:Our Pirate Game is Getting Owned By App Store Pirates by trapper on Friday October 02, 2009 @02:18AM (#856539)

And EA and the other big game companies aren't just like them?

The people that I know that pirate the most music do so off independents more than mainstream.

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Re:Our Pirate Game is Getting Owned By App Store Pirates by jacquesm on Friday October 02, 2009 @07:00AM (#856747)

> The people that I know that pirate the most music do so off independents more than mainstream.

That's really bad.

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