Do you pirate?

[T.H.E.E.]

I bought this Chinese gaming phone as a "backup" and found out it has a lot of Sega Mega Drive 2 (and arcade only) games in it. You have a button for coin insertion and all. It's pretty great and I tend to play on it from time to time.

On my PC I prefer to play free games (like F.E.A.R. combat for example)

My view on piracy isn't all black and white. For example, I myself can't remember when I downloaded music the last time, a couple of years for sure... That being said, I see a huge difference in somebody leaching/downloading a tune from Rhianna and/or Justin Bieber and from say some amazing (genre is just an example) Progressive House/Chillstep producer that is trying to make a living and does everything on his own, invests a lot of money in his own equipment, spends a lot of time making his music etc, etc, etc...

That being said, a lot depends on financial ability of people... There are a lot of places in the world where people work for pennies and have entire families to feed... They simply can't afford to buy art, no matter if it is in the form of music, games, movies or anything else...

I can also understand if somebody downloaded something to check if he likes it-and then if he does, he buys it legally, and if he doesn't, just deletes it... That is okay IMO too.


What's not okay is that a person likes and wants something, has money, agrees that the price is right (not obviously overpriced), can EASILY afford it, but doesn't give a damn...! He just takes and takes and takes and doesn't care anything about anything...