(10-19-2013, 01:16 PM)Apathy compleX Wrote: ...The PS2s here are so bad in quality that they'd work for like 4 months max before they start being picky about games, even the legal ones. I myself bought my computer mainly so that I can play PS2 without having to buy a PS2 for the seventh time.
My dead bios donor in the closet is... let's see my fourth or fifth PS2. Here in the states the quality isn't stellar or anything. I bought my first one new and it lasted quite a while. The rest were used and lasted a year at most. One lasted less than a month. Maybe other people don't take as good care of there hardware as me.
I remember my brother wanted to borrow my FFX disc once, I gave him a speech(he is much older than me, At the time I would have been in my late teens early twenties and him in his early forties). When I finally reluctantly turned it over, about 30 minutes later I found his wife using the case as a hard surface to write on a piece of paper with a pen. We actually all got in a fight over it. And he didn't get to borrow my game. A game which I still have without a single blemish on the disc or the case, except her pen squigglies on the case plastic.
It's funny for someone as clumsy and unorganized as me to be so protective of something. For me this disc symbolizes a story I experienced. A happy time in my life. And so it is with many discs.
Back on topic. I agree with saying that one of the reasons people pirate so much is because Sony isn't doing anything about it. The percent of people in America who infringe copyright is astronomical
http://gcn.com/articles/2012/01/05/ameri...ideos.aspx
"About 46 percent of [American] adults say they’ve bought, copied or downloaded pirated music, movies or TV shows, and the number grows to 70 percent for 18-29 year olds, according to a survey by the American Assembly, a public affairs forum affiliated with Columbia University. "
That 18-29 bracket would be where I fall in to just for the record. I'm 29 actually. 70% of people in that bracket ADMIT to some form of copyright infringement.
Some people get sued, and a very few might even go to jail. But it's a drop in the bucket. You are probably more likely to get in a car accident.
All that said, I am not in any way saying "Go out and pirate away, you won't get caught." To be honest I don't give a hoot about the law, and don't live buy it. I have an internal moral code that tells me what is right and wrong. Stealing something is wrong.
Edit: Also from the same article
"...an even greater majority opposes wide-scale distribution of copyrighted material for commercial gain"
Commercial gain being the keyword there. I know a lot of people that think it's okay as long as no one is making money from the pirating. And oh, we've come full circle to the previous post's question, I think.