Space Empires V Pirated!

[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.