I agree. But then again, so does the author of this article. That is why he suggests gamers pay a hefty flat rate every month in exchange for access to any and every game they want. With that flat rate being pumped into the videogame industry, developers would have their money and gamers could download as many games as they want. The author does not defend piracy, he finds arguably the smartest way around it. So please guys, read the source article.

I'm glad he feels that way. I've been copying entries from gamer owl and posting them on my own site where I make money from ads.
I'm thankful for this validation of what I do. ;)

FRAUD

I tried reinstalling my legitimate copy of Overlord on my new computer but the disc wouldnt work. I pirated an .iso and burned a new disc.

Depends. I get royalties collected for songs I've written and co-written. If someone plays them on radio and I've performed on them , or if they buy the CD/downloasd I also get royalties collected for me.

Downloaded P2P or other illegal route and I don't which feels more like theft than fraud to me-I may not lose the cash a big artist might but I bet what I do lose hurts me more as I'm not that big of a fish.

Piracy is called piracy for a reason and, as a practise it's morally empty. People who record a comics(standup) show live on their phone/camera and then put it up to share are even worse as they prolly prevent people from going to later shows too and a live routine of a few hours can take years to put together. Same with games-whether you put it up to share or just download it you're stealing as it's a commodity you pay for if you want it legally and offering someone elses work to people for nohing doesn't make someone Robin Digital Hood. The pubs/devs of the game won't see the money for their efforts and this leads to law abiders paying more as the chain of production all tries to make up the lost revenue-so you also steal from the wallets of honest gamers if you burgle peoples IP from the 'net gratis.

This "I'm alright Jack/I'm doing nothing wrong" IS hocum and those letting stuff be downloaded from them as a source deserve sentences in keeping with those stealing physical objests/monies in the real, as distinguished from the lack of any cUrrent reprisals for these " free" dowlOADS.

It needs to get sorted as these lowlife idiots will only keep hurting the industry, stealing from devs and costing the reat of us more as the devs/suppliers/publishers etc try to make up their losses. And while this goes on the freeloaders continue to look at us like we're the thick ones for paying for someones work/talent/ideas.

No, this is not idiotic rambling. Criticizing an article without having read it, THAT is idiotic rambling. If you would have actually read the article and not just the first sentences, you would know that the author does not defend piracy. He merely points out the fundamental difference between stealing material property and digital property. He then uses that difference in his SOLUTION to piracy. That's right, he doesn't defend piracy, he comes up with a way counteract it, and a F'ing brilliant idea if you ask me. But hey, why read an article when blindly criticizing it is so much more fun.

The stock mark is what makes Microsoft remarkable, They have convinced every institutional and retail investor to just keep piling money into them. Like many big tech giants they are just a big growing pyramid scheme. As long as people keep dropping money into ETF's that cover the market Microsoft will always be liquid. At the same time it is completely stifling innovation and competition. People need to start being more discreet in how they invest their money as it's killing the system.

Riiiiight because people will just flock back to them for one or two games per year.

15+ years of bad performance is what they call irreparable in business. It is time for them to sell off the assets and get out of entertainment.

Let me be clear. This is sarcasm