Post by Squishalot
The value I assign to something is always fair. The values other people assign to things aren't.
It's comments like this that make me feel like it's completely worthless talking to you about anything to do with morality sometimes. Why didn't you just say so in the first place, that you're right and we're wrong? That would've saved plenty of time.
A smaller gamble is still a gamble.
Life is a gamble. Get used to it.
I've never heard of an internet cafe with gaming computers, and regardless the nearest one I know about is over 50 miles away.
Gaming cafe. Unless you're living in the middle of the Atlantic on an oil rig, I find it hard to believe that there is no reasonably convenient place to play a game on someone else's computer.
That strikes me as being like rewarding a child for being bad in the hopes they'll use your good will to be good later on.
The piracy version of your comment would be letting a child starve to death for being bad.
You need to have some sort of repatriation for effort in order to make the risk/reward balance appealing to game producers, even if the output isn't fantastic. Like I said, otherwise, all we're going to get is a steady stream of cash cow remakes. Is that what you're looking for?
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, has fun on the rides all day longThank you for quoting me out of context and completely ignoring the point raised.
Criminal damage. Not piracy unless the neighbour allowed them to do. Not really thought about that before because we generally use satellites and not cable here.
The implication is that it's been allowed by the neighbour, to draw the analogy. Still waiting for a response on the issue. Is this 'right'?
No, I just don't feel bad about it because of it.
So it's morally wrong, but you don't feel bad about it?
There has been a discrepancy between American and rest-of-the-world broadcast dates longer than there has been piracy, that plays nothing into their decision, and make no mistake it's the Americans who won't sell it yet, not the British who won't buy it yet.
Along with all the other aforementioned shows, IT Crowd wasn't available anywhere else in the world at all other than the first episode when it came out. Britain exports plenty of delayed-viewing items.
That being said, if a company was willing to pay enough for the broadcast rights, I bet that so-called 'discrimination' would disappear fairly quickly. For example, we're getting Glee here in Australia only a couple of weeks after the US has it (compared to ~2 years after for just about everything else) because the broadcaster is willing to pay the price to get the early rights. The only discrimination is in your head.