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The funny thing is that nobody will benefit from that. The site is down, so honest people who were willing to spend a few bucks on their favorite games will now
by adambyrtek 16y ago
The funny thing is that nobody will benefit from that. The site is down, so honest people who were willing to spend a few bucks on their favorite games will now have to look for them on The Pirate Bay.
- RodgerTheGreat 16y ago...Or buy them used on Amazon or Ebay, just to name two places. I've never bought this false dichotomy for justifying piracy.
- gscott 16y agoGame publishers consider used sales the same as piracy.
- hugh3 16y agoReally? And they haven't sued Gamestop yet?
- gscott 16y agoUsed games chaps the industries hide http://www.neowin.net/news/used-games-worse-than-piracy-says-developer http://www.neowin.net/news/used-games-worse-than-piracy-says... Also developers are now including 1 time activiation codes where you say end up reselling it the new user will have to reactivate it for some all of all of the features, for a fee. http://360.kombo.com/article.php?artid=18941 http://360.kombo.com/article.php?artid=18941
- mambodog 16y agoIsn't the point of the site that most of these games are difficult to get any other way (ie, even from Amazon & eBay)? When a game is that old, and difficult to get hold of, I think eventually it is no longer 'piracy', and instead becomes 'preserving our history/culture'.
- aw3c2 16y agoNew games are more and more locked in ways that make selling/buying used copies impossible.