Have You Noticed.

[michael jackson]

i doubt what he is has a name, to me its obvious, hes a retard, hes to dumb to see this point

illegaalmachine, pirate games and YOU can make then YU can program your psp and YOU can make any damn format disc you want because YOU will produce them with YOUR money, then YOU can not bitch about piracy

walk a mile in another mans shoes

also, these multimillion dollar conglomarites also pay their millions of employees a salary, and spend multimillions of dollars on each game you steal

i really wish illegal could get a look at what would happen if everyone started pirating and noone stops this... like scrooge

believe it or not we wouldnt have games or movies at all, would you waste money on something everyone will just download?


as for roms of older systems, i feel its ok to play games noone cares to remaster because if its not on anything past ps1/n64 noones making money off it

tell me a way to play translated star ocean for super famicom?....

other than megamanx collection most of my fav snes games arent ported (starfox bubsy kirby3 etc etc) and if noone plans to remaster them on gameboy or w/e i cant buy em

edit: also the ONLY way for anyone to play the lost treasure called starfox 2 is via hacked rom.... truly greAt game but it was scrapped at 98% because it wouldnt make money once n64 released perfectly legal since it never saw shelves...

[Illegal Machine]

Dude you got it all wrong.


Its not that you have the right to come over to my house and steal because I have enough money.


its that WE aren't the internet police. computer software may have seen a lot of piracy in the 90's but computers are still here arent they? What about tapes? What about mp3's theres lots of "piracy" going on everywhere, all the time, neither you, I, nor any site can extract that from the human psyche.

Sony made a damn good product, but they make these so called walls around this and that which YOU purchased with YOUR hard earned money. as far as I'm concerned its yours. and neither sony nor anyone else has the right to tell you otherwise. I'm no anarchist, but there's a certain amount of lawlessness going on here on the internet, and if anyone thinks they're doing themselves a service by cutting themselves out of it theyre wrong. I love sony, I probably bought more sony crap than anyone on this site, but Ive seen them try again and again and again to make a product that's "special" and in the end just wastes your money. Havent you ever noticed how similar UMDs are to Minidiscs? and how minidiscs are no longer around at all? wel lits because the companies are sitting around trying to figure out how to keep you from copying thier material. give me a break. they lose money on these things all the time Betamax for example.




I mean are you on the honor system? if so, then please try not to be so hypocritical and say this is ok, and that isn't. no one has to follow your or anyone elses values, so keep that in mind when you construct your arguments. I have an opinion, which consists of this.


if theres a percentage of people who want to pirate software, however large that may be, its thier right to do so. sony can try to stop them, but as you have seen time and again people are jutst going to copy things. it happens over and over and over there are hundreds of programs out there for copying DVDs, and everything else under the sun. accept it.


So maybe its our right to copy whatever we want? it seems to happen a lot. Dual tape deck stereos, DVD writable drives, MP3s, emulators, CD burners, Dual deck VCRs, I mean are you kidding me? why arent you attacking these things and just focusing on ME when I say its cool??


awnser that!



and once again all you usually have to say is, "you're stupid and blah blah blah..." would you cry when you see people getting to a party for free? I bet you wouldnt care if you didnt think the music was worth 40 dollars. grow up Michael Jackson!

[psychadelicious]

you are all women who cry too much... hahah just kidding but seriously everyone has their own oppinion so **** it. There is nothing that you can do about it unless you are an owner of a search engine.

[AtomSky_Chen]

ISOs are illegal no matter what you say. No need to discuss on this any more...
ROMs could be the same when they are new...

p.s. Wragg, please unban my account "Jeff Chen"... I didn't do anything wrong, did I?

[nexus one]

I say any moderator who posts an IP address of a user purely because he disagrees with their opinion should be stood down IMMEDIATELY. If dcemu is trying to establish itself as a professional source of news and community, idiots like that who abuse their position of power over the drop of a hat are only going to do this website harm.

Moderators are supposed to be mature, unbiased, open and sensible. I don't care how quickly 1timeuser removed the IP address and host. The fact is that he posted it. It wasn't even over an argument or flamewar. He simply posted an alternate point of view to the piracy argument and BAM! a goddamn moderator, of all things, posts his personal data all over the internet.

His excuse? Oh, I'm sorry. Sometimes I can't control myself.

Good one. If you can't control yourself, do us all a favour and step down.

[yaustar]

So maybe its our right to copy whatever we want? it seems to happen a lot. Dual tape deck stereos, DVD writable drives, MP3s, emulators, CD burners, Dual deck VCRs, I mean are you kidding me? why arent you attacking these things and just focusing on ME when I say its cool??


awnser that!

We are free to backup what we own, not distrubuting copies of copyrighted material which is what you are implying.

There is ethics and there is law and the law is something that everyone must abide by whether we like it or not. If we don't then we can try and get the law changed.

In relation to the original topic, it is against the LAW (in most countries) to distribute copyrighted material and it does seem strange that google has these kind of links in their ads..

@nexus: Its called being human. As far as I can remember, that is the first time that this has happened and everyone is entitled to an 'off' day.

[nexus one]

And for the record, if Sony continues to charge $50 for games which are basically just cut down ports, then they're asking for this treatment.

Handheld games need to be cheaper than their big brother counterparts if they want more people to buy them.

[yaustar]

Oh, so just because it is expensive, it condones piracy? Great arguement. If you dont like, dont buy it. Where the heck does the piracy factor fall in?

While I am not too bothered about the price, I agree there should be a lot more original IP out there for the machine.

[Illegal Machine]

I say any moderator who posts an IP address of a user purely because he disagrees with their opinion should be stood down IMMEDIATELY. If dcemu is trying to establish itself as a professional source of news and community, idiots like that who abuse their position of power over the drop of a hat are only going to do this website harm.

Moderators are supposed to be mature, unbiased, open and sensible. I don't care how quickly 1timeuser removed the IP address and host. The fact is that he posted it. It wasn't even over an argument or flamewar. He simply posted an alternate point of view to the piracy argument and BAM! a goddamn moderator, of all things, posts his personal data all over the internet.

His excuse? Oh, I'm sorry. Sometimes I can't control myself.

Good one. If you can't control yourself, do us all a favour and step down.

thank you. I wrote a letter of disproval suggesting he be banned permanently.


although I don't know what good it will do.



you know I got banned from PSPcrazy because someone didnt like my opinion..

these people need to move to a communist country and abuse thier power in a socially acceptable manner.







On a semi related note.




I have to tell you, I've been to more than a few 3rd world countries, or communist countires, and some of these economies can't afford, or don't have access to games for PS2, or computers at the current market price. Nor is it feasable for them to order online, (even tho they have computers) and the only way a lot of people in these areas can even play PS2, computer games or otherwise is to obtain PIRATED copies either over the internet, or from collector/distriburors. so cry all you want, if it wasn't for these practices a lot of people wouldn't even be able to watch certain movies, play a lot of games, and do a LOT of the things you have full access to on a regular basis and think nothing of.

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[Illegal Machine]

it may be true that non of the developers are affected, but places like that eb games that still sell old school cartiages( making profits of them to ), will suffer, these ppl should be considered in the equation aswell. Now without any hard fact it's hard to say how much Sony suffer from iso. For instances take xbox/ps2 console every game is avaliable in ISO format, but both console are still doing strong business. Look at pc game industry, every game that gets released is hacked and avaliable for the general public, but developers still stay in the pc business. Now since this is a capitalism they must be having profits otherwise why not stop developing games for these systems.

Exactly