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Originally Posted by Bib  You pirate Nintendo DS games because it allows you to keep many of them on one card instead of having to carry around multiple game cards. You pirate video games in general because you live in Germany and the game is not going to be released here for the next 6 months, or maybe it's not going to be release at all. |
Additionally the german translation usually sucks and is misleading.
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Originally Posted by Bib You pirate music because it's possible to hear a neat song, look up the album it's on and go hit up a torrent of that album (or even that artists complete discography if you really like the song) and have it on your harddrive 15 minutes later, ready to be copied to a portable media player. |
And with bought CDs you never can be sure if they really play in all your equipment - quite often I endet up pirating a album I already bought because it would not play on my cd player.
Same goes for DVDs - with all these incompatabilities, region codes, or even malware like on the Mr. and Mrs. Smith DVD you usually are better of ripping it somewhere.
Some Software goes down this road, too. I had a language trainer with so many copy protection stuff it was unusable.
Most copy protection schemes punish legal users more than pirates
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Sam