Quote Originally Posted by lizard81288 View Post
I was thinking why pirating is bad even though everybody does it, then i thought of used games, and then it lead me to this.

Pirating:
Someone buys the game, rips it and uploads it. Then someone else downloads it.

Borrowing:
Someone buys the game, and then gives it to you. (then you say you lost it, and are secretly keeping it)

Either way you are getting the game for free, but someone else has to buy it. If someone lent you their music CD, and you Ripped the CD into windows media player, isn't that the same thing as pirating the CD, since you didn't pay for it?
Borrowing =/= stealing

borrowing implies giving it back... otherwise it's just stealing.


Anyway, it's useless comparing borrowing/stealing/pirating to justify it... same goes for people saying it's good or bad.

Either do it or not, arguing about it is quite useless in the end anyways... if you ask me.