Whats your Opinion on Piracy?

[Sonic Angel Knight]

To be honest i wish people just release games in all countries, I understand reasons for region exclusive games but just take a chance, earthbound wasn't a best seller but people do love it. They like it so much nintendo translated the original mother 1 game on nes and released it on Virtual console offically. I was hoping this would be followed by lots of non english games as well.
Why anyone in international countries care about fire emblem was cause marth and roy in super smash bros melee then decide to start publishing games internationally starting with GBA, fire emblem. But fact is fire emblem first game was originally a Famicom (JAP NES ONLY) game and clearly existed for great deal of time before being on GBA.

I think one reason piracy is a thing cause nintendo refuse to get rid of the region lock on their consoles, unlike playstation that you can buy and play any kind of game without system modifcation and supports full english translation.

Is reasons why websites like play aisa exist today So you can buy porn and hentai games like dead or alive extreme 3 to enjoy So you can buy uncut and uncensored games that is worth the full $40-$60+ Price tag.

 

[NakedFaerie]

My opinion is its fine as long as its free. DONT charge for pirated items.
If its free then its ok. If you charge the price of a blank DVD thats fine or let them bring their own blank DVD and fill it for free.

If its a game you own, I believe you should be allowed to back it up and run that backup as long as you own the original.
BUT if you have pirated games you dont own and you got them for free and no money changed hands for those games then its ok, its frowned apon but not illegal.

My opinion is it becomes illegal when money changes hands for that pirated item. As long as its kept free it'll be frowned upon but nothing they can or should do about it.
Like movies, I never go to the cinema, if I download a movie and I like it then I will buy it when it comes out on bluray so there is no loss of sales. If its a crap movie I wont buy it anyway so again no loss of sales.

How can I pirate a movie and buy it and still be classed as bad? See, not all pirates are bad. I'm a buyer, I paid for it but I also have a pirated copy so what now? Am I a good guy or a bad guy?

There are many reasons why people pirate items, price too stupid, not available locally, its easier, its free, its available.

I see it as an ok thing. For everyone my age (over 40) remember when you had a double tape deck and copied from 1 tape to another? Same thing.
Remember before then when you recorded from the radio and kept really quiet till the song was finished, same thing. remember when you recorded movies with your VCR connected to another vcr, same thing.
Downloading digital versions is the exact same thing as tape to tape in the 80s, vcr to vcr in the 90s, dvd to vcr then dvd to dvd in the 2000's.

Piracy has always been there, its just as the world has come together with the internet that its become so mainstream.
I would love to find out if the people that are complaining about it these days had a double tapedeck in the 80's and copied their music that way, I bet they did.