Thoughts on Pirating
May. 22nd, 2009 07:40 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hkellickSo, I'm going to just go ahead and say it. It bothers me, personally, that Sims 3 was leaked and that some people have gone out and downloaded the illegal copy already and are playing it.
Truth be told, I'm EXTREMELY excited about Sims 3. Seriously, on a scale of 1 to 10, my excitement is approximately 15. I read about it nonstop, talk about it nonstop. I'm probably driving my poor wife batty.
But I'm not going to download it because as excited as I am, I want to do this legally and just wait the next 11 days.
Look... I'm not here to preach morality to people. If you're OK with downloading the pirated version, then that's your deal. It's not my deal.
But, that said, there's something inherently unfair in the fact that this option exists and that, realistically, there's no real consequences to people pirating the game two weeks before the rest of us legally get our hands on it.
Really, I know.. this is a bit silly. Because piracy is EA's problem, not mine.
But it bothers me nonetheless.
This is not a post to make people feel guilty. I'm not here to tell you off or anything. I'm just saying something that I feel strongly that I had to say somewhere, and since this is my journal, this is where I'm going to say it.
Truth be told, I'm EXTREMELY excited about Sims 3. Seriously, on a scale of 1 to 10, my excitement is approximately 15. I read about it nonstop, talk about it nonstop. I'm probably driving my poor wife batty.
But I'm not going to download it because as excited as I am, I want to do this legally and just wait the next 11 days.
Look... I'm not here to preach morality to people. If you're OK with downloading the pirated version, then that's your deal. It's not my deal.
But, that said, there's something inherently unfair in the fact that this option exists and that, realistically, there's no real consequences to people pirating the game two weeks before the rest of us legally get our hands on it.
Really, I know.. this is a bit silly. Because piracy is EA's problem, not mine.
But it bothers me nonetheless.
This is not a post to make people feel guilty. I'm not here to tell you off or anything. I'm just saying something that I feel strongly that I had to say somewhere, and since this is my journal, this is where I'm going to say it.
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Date: 2009-05-22 12:56 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-05-22 02:01 pm (UTC)