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Place Like tombstone for COnsoles??
SirPoonga:
--- Quote from: Dave_K. on September 01, 2002, 04:32:09 pm ---
Come on guys, its bad enough you are pirating arcade roms (yeah I know they are from 10-20 years ago...), but pirating console games is just plain wrong. Get a job and buy the damn game. Geesh!
-Dave
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Do you have mp3s you downloaded off the net that you don't have the CD, DVD, tape, LP for?
Dave_K.:
--- Quote from: SirPoonga on September 01, 2002, 06:16:46 pm ---
Do you have mp3s you downloaded off the net that you don't have the CD, DVD, tape, LP for?
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Yes I do, and these are ones which are freely available from the artists website or mp3.com. I also happen to have 5 original arcade cabinets, and several PC and Console emulator CDs from the real game manufacturers (Midway, Atari, Namco). Why do you ask?
-Dave
SirPoonga:
I ask to to just make you think about what you said. It didn't matter if you answered yes or no.
You say arcade pirating is bad but pirating consoles is plain wrong. It's the exact same thing.
I'd be the first one in line if there was any hope of making a good compywrite law for software. Anything over 10 years old should be fair game. No one is making money off of it anymore, the computing world changes to fast. (BTW, I mean games, not business software.
Dave_K.:
Its kind of ironic that Mame is a big reason why these "classic roms" have come back into the market place. They do indeed still make money off the licenses (today) with PC and Console "classic packs" (using their own emulation software). I'm sure it doesn't contribute nearly anything to their profit margins....so yes its BAD to pirate them, but its not hurting the industry much.
Now the opposite is true with console pirating. Software companies are pouring loads of money and man hours on creating (rather sucky) console titles, only to have them ripped off. So in turn they jack up the price to off set the loss in revenue through pirating. So you are in turn hurting the industry and the end users! This is why its just plain wrong.
-Dave
Demon-Seed:
I would agree that pirating CAN hurt new consoles like XBOX, PS, and PS2. But the NES is dead...no money is to be made, and no matter what they still will jack the prices up. In the 80's there was little pirating if any and games still were 80 Canadian (about 40-50 US) that was very high!!