Space Empires V Pirated!

[Atrocities]

I am sorry, all because they don't plan to buy Space Empires V or Dominions 3 in the first place really isn't a valid excuse for downloading them. Its like saying "Well I wasn't going to buy that car in the first place, so its ok for me to go out and steal it." That is by far the most druggie indused moronic logic that I have ever been forced to consider in my life. It makes absolutely no sense at all. A person might as well have two first names and live in a trailer if that is the logic behind their day to day lives.

I don't really blame the people who download the software, its out there so its fair game. I blame the SOB retards who posted it in the first place. In my opinion they had no right to pirate Space Empires V or Dominions 3 at all. They took these games, and posted them for any and all to download freely and in so doing, intentionally compormised the future of both game franchises.

I agree that people will be people and if stuff is free there going to take it regardless of right or wrong, but those who POST the stuff for others to download have no such excuse. They are not stealing from the rich and giving to the poor, they are simply just stealing something that took somone quite literally years to develop and they are giving it away for free and it isn't theres to give away!

Who the hell do they think they are to take something as precious as one of these games and give it away as if they own the rights to do so? F*** them! They should be strung up and hanged from the nearest light pole for all to see with a sign around their necks that reads "I Pirated Space Empires V and Dominions 3."

You know who you are and I know that you don't give a s**t about what you did and that is why I think your lower than snake sh** and would love nothing more than to see you gutted by a dull butter knife and left to die an agonizing death in the heart of the hotest desert on Earth.

[AstralWanderer]

Atrocities said:Its like saying "Well I wasn't going to buy that car in the first place, so its ok for me to go out and steal it." That is by far the most druggie indused moronic logic that I have ever been forced to consider in my life.

And that is the sort of propaganda the music industry likes to spin in its "downloading = theft" campaign. Physical theft (where one person taking = another person losing) and copyright infringement (where the loss is potential rather than actual) are on totally different levels and cannot be reasonably equated, despite what RIAA/MPAA lobbyists would wish the general public to believe.

Yes, if someone downloads SEV (or anything else) and decides to keep it then they should pay for it if they are able. There are however enough cases of people being burnt by commercial game demos that ended up being very different from the full release, to justify them being cautious and wanting to try a full download first (even if a warez one) before making a decision.

Those who can but won't pay are not worth spitting on, let alone discussing further here.

[Renegade 13]

I'll freely admit I was a pirate. I pirated SEIV back in my younger days, before I had any money to spend on it after I tried out the demo. Then, when I had the money, I bought SEIV and was happy with that decision. I didn't pirate to get it free, I pirated as a method of...delaying payment for the game that I was going to buy anyways Condemn that if you will, it won't bother me

[Atrocities]

We all have our skeletons in the closest, I am no hypocrit, I just dislike the fact that someone, quite possibly a member here, could be so bitter that they would willingly undermine the success of Dominions 3 and SE V by posting them to a BT site. To me they are traiters to the franchises, the fanboys, and the games themselves. They represent the scum that should never have been aloud to evolve into human form.