I want to start with the recent anime I seen which was Ika Musume which at first I thought was stupid but turns out to be quite nice actually and I really enjoyed both seasons and the OVA and mini episodes and I was hoping to get a mini Ika Musume phone strap but I couldn't find one but thats fine I guess since i'm already getting a Haganai one although I hope I could get one eventually since I really enjoyed the anime and I kinda want a memento of that, i'll be searching for a Win 7 theme of it though, i'm a little tired of my BRS Win 7 theme. Now onto the main bit.
After reading http://gbatemp.net/topic/335286-anti-downloading-law-passed-in-japan/ in the USN I thought to myself, was there ever a war on piracy or is it just the big corporations just shoving lies into consumer's faces and brainwashing them to believe that anyone who doesn't buy their product is the most evil thing on earth, and my personal thought is this is getting more and more stupid by the day because firstly if you believe all the statistics on piracy for any kind of media then your an idiot, companies make them up all the time otherwise if they release the real facts you wouldn't give a shit because they're so low and so far no industry that has their products pirated ever died/closed or filed for bankruptcy.
On other gaming sites that isn't like GBATemp I found all gamers actually believe the shit that the big companies shit out and why wouldn't they since no real facts have been presented to argue against that and somehow anyone who says otherwise is just as evil, lets start with the old "piracy means a lost sale", if piracy meant a lost sale then in the same logic buying from some other company is a lost sale as well and so is not buying it at all because you the consumer isn't buying it from the first company but buying from the other. Now move on to "piracy is stealing" which is wrong because stealing is taking the original product from someone while piracy is making a copy of it and then using it not taking the original product so there is no theft involved in the first place, this point also plays into how piracy isn't a lost sale. Finally since I can't think of any others "piracy is killing X industry" now anyone can claim piracy is killing their industry but if thats true then the music industry must have died when the cassette tape was made, TV must have died when the VHS had a record function, gaming must have died when you can copy the disk/cartridge to play but none of these industries have died, they're still going strong and improving throughout the years.
I had a little hope that we as gamers can put this bullshit behind us but apparently those who aren't into or has knowledge of the hacking scene will happily believe whatever the big companies spew out with their false facts and now has become so ignorant that even when you tell them it is false they will comeback with more bullshit on how piracy is just as evil as murderers and other more criminal acts which it isn't but my last point on this is, if you believe this stuff then feel free to but don't go shoving in my face that piracy is a criminal act cause it isn't the police should be out there catching murderers, rapists and other real criminals and if your gonna make them waste time on internet piracy then you should be happy living in a dangerous community but hey there is no pirates there.
After reading http://gbatemp.net/topic/335286-anti-downloading-law-passed-in-japan/ in the USN I thought to myself, was there ever a war on piracy or is it just the big corporations just shoving lies into consumer's faces and brainwashing them to believe that anyone who doesn't buy their product is the most evil thing on earth, and my personal thought is this is getting more and more stupid by the day because firstly if you believe all the statistics on piracy for any kind of media then your an idiot, companies make them up all the time otherwise if they release the real facts you wouldn't give a shit because they're so low and so far no industry that has their products pirated ever died/closed or filed for bankruptcy.
On other gaming sites that isn't like GBATemp I found all gamers actually believe the shit that the big companies shit out and why wouldn't they since no real facts have been presented to argue against that and somehow anyone who says otherwise is just as evil, lets start with the old "piracy means a lost sale", if piracy meant a lost sale then in the same logic buying from some other company is a lost sale as well and so is not buying it at all because you the consumer isn't buying it from the first company but buying from the other. Now move on to "piracy is stealing" which is wrong because stealing is taking the original product from someone while piracy is making a copy of it and then using it not taking the original product so there is no theft involved in the first place, this point also plays into how piracy isn't a lost sale. Finally since I can't think of any others "piracy is killing X industry" now anyone can claim piracy is killing their industry but if thats true then the music industry must have died when the cassette tape was made, TV must have died when the VHS had a record function, gaming must have died when you can copy the disk/cartridge to play but none of these industries have died, they're still going strong and improving throughout the years.
I had a little hope that we as gamers can put this bullshit behind us but apparently those who aren't into or has knowledge of the hacking scene will happily believe whatever the big companies spew out with their false facts and now has become so ignorant that even when you tell them it is false they will comeback with more bullshit on how piracy is just as evil as murderers and other more criminal acts which it isn't but my last point on this is, if you believe this stuff then feel free to but don't go shoving in my face that piracy is a criminal act cause it isn't the police should be out there catching murderers, rapists and other real criminals and if your gonna make them waste time on internet piracy then you should be happy living in a dangerous community but hey there is no pirates there.
