"rip their own games" (lol that's piracy right there)
Under the " Fair Use " Policy of Copyright Law you are allowed 1 backup of your content which you have purchased, so is NOT Piracy, anymore than 1 and it is. This goes for anything> DVDs, BD, games, Music etc.
What bothers me is the posts like this where people act like they are "better than you"
I do not think I am better than anyone else... I am simply not a thief.
not necessarily obtaining the material being distributed..
You are downloading an ILLEGAL copy of a game so is therefore considered as "theft" and/or "recieving stolen property" or "Handling stolen property".
So if say for some reason your house got raided by Police or customs and they found an HDD, or a few HDDs, full of game backups which you did not own a disc of or the digital licence for (ie PSN games) could not prove you legitimatly own these... they would let you go..??? NO they would confiscate them and/or all things related to it and you would be procecuted for Copyright theft , theft, piracy, handling stolen property etc.
You are not supporting the developers, their checks have already been cut and long since cashed..
This maybe BUT they still own the rights to the game and is theirs. How about you make something then I'll rip it off and distrubute it all over the interent for free... you wouldn't like it.
The thing is TOO many people have a too much of a liberal view on this even though the law is in black and white for ALL to see and don't realise what it costs the game industry to combat it.... game's get more expensive and so on as they spend more money on anti-piracy measures.
but I also think there's better things to tread on / shut people out for other than them making mention of a game they downloaded.
Why do this?... becuase it protects the site, thats why.... allowing, linking to piracy and other such things can get site's like this shut down for copyright infringement.
Plenty of sites over the years have been shut down for it..... WHY?? because its ILLEGAL and theft.
I am saying no more on the matter.