Well, if one would never buy it, why pirate it in the first place? It's obviously not a "need"

Here's an example. Suppose I ran Windows and wanted to "DJ" in Second Life. On Windows, Sam Broadcaster is considered the best for that purpose.. It costs $300. Now if I only DJ'd a few parties and friends events, that's a big money sink for software I wouldn't use much. But if I don't want to pay that much for it, and would never buy it, that is not an excuse to pirate the thing.

Apologists like you claim that there are "many people who would never buy it", but if they would never buy it, they shouldn't pirate it, because pirating proves it has value to them....but they just don't want to pay for it.

Actually, it's not. the oldest arcade game he used was was from 1979, the newest arcade game from 1983. The 2600 was released in 1977. So that would be like starting out with PS2 games and then moving to PS1 games.

The Dual-Analog that became the Dual-shock, yes. but not the Analog joystick:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P...

So technically the PSone had an analog controller before the N64, though it wasn't a Dual-shock.

I don't count the neGcon because it only had one analog axis and a few analog buttons.

Jumping Flash! on the PSone predates Mario64. Hell, even SNES Wolfenstein and DOOM and Zero Tolerance on the Genesis predate Mario64.

no, it wasn't.

Yeah, and that's just the load times from floppy.

And vice versa, they had different strengths.

Don't you know all those games had console releases?

It ensures the alt key commands work, on some Linux distros, they won't unless you add the -8.

While that is true, in the nethack community reverse video means white on black.

I'd rather have the corridors not look like this:

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But this:

http://nethackwiki.com/mediawi...

or this:

http://www.coredumpcentral.org...

This, "#" is a sink, not a corridor.

ha! Or maybe they only click on ones where you have to punch a monkey.

Good point on the Anime.

Yes it is, because that's what's being pirated in massive amounts. Check the most popular torrents, you know what they're going to be. Hollywood releases for movies, Game of Thrones and Sons of Anarchy for TV, R&B and Pop stars for music, Adobe and microsoft software, games from US companies.

So, then complain to the local content companies who haven't bought the local rights...and don't pirate.

They do? Oh I know, the Koreans make P2W MMO's and the Japanese do moe otaku games with 12 year old characters with melon sized breasts and lots of zettai ryouki, the Russians do games about WW2, the germans do un-fun RPG's where your character has a chance to catch a cold from his pillow when he sleeps, and the Finns do monetized crappy phone/tablet games where you have to pay to progress at a decent pace.

And of course there's films and TV being made throughout the world. But that's not the stuff getting pirated on TPB, or being played on Steam, is it.

What are these governments you speak of? It's companies that deal in content, not governments. If, say, people in Sweden can't get Game of Thrones digitally, it's because some local company doesn't have those rights. They have to pay for them, they are separate from broadcast rights, DVD/blu-ray rights, are also separate.

If the media companies in Sweden can't afford it, don't want to pay or those rights aren't offered there...that sucks. But it doesn't give the people in Sweden the moral right to pirate it.

After all, if BBC America stopped showing Dr. Who, that wouldn't give me the right to torrent it.

Region locking exists because rights are "per country" and often "per company". A company may have purchased some rights, but not others. Some companies may have rights but then decide to not release. Sometimes the contracts for who gets what were made years ago before internet and they have to wait till the contracts run out before they change what rights are offered and where.

If you don't like it..... nothing is stopping any country from making their own content....except that US companies...are very very good at Entertainment and make the stuff everyone wants.

All these pro-piracy articles aren't about American's pirating tv shows from Sweden or Russia. It's about Finns, Russians, Thais, Brazilians, Chinese, whatever...pirating American media.

Maybe, but it's always sounded to me that the Piracy-havens of Scandinavia and Eastern Europe want to have their cake and eat it too. Resenting the US corporations for dominating Entertainment, and then pirating all the US made games/movies/music/TV that they can.

If they don't want to pay, then don't pirate it. No fucking American company is going to be stupid enough to release things in Scandinavia, Finland, Hungary or Russia knowing that some pirate party/information wants to be free guy in Sweden or Finland or Former Comrade Commie current Mafiya Ivan will just upload the thing to finnishtorrents.fi or rodinamafiyatorrents.ru.

maybe if they paid for stuff their own countries would be able to make quality content other than crappy point and click adventures with bad dialog, cheap cell phone games and trojans and viruses and botnets.

Why shouldn't USA content be restricted to the USA? Can't other places make good TV shows/films/games rather than pirating American-made stuff?

Well, it wouldn't be the first Sony-signed rootkit...

When the Amazon MP3 store comes to your locale, you will find that it DOES work on Linux, and the PS3.