Highlander999
ICC President
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True, but I'm tired and my brain hurts, so I won't 
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nightprowler10
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What?! Which plan?
gudduthemaster
International Cricketer
we have Big Flix
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pcfan123
Guest
Just checked my credit card statement and apparently it was $8.95 for the 1st month and $15.95 for the rest.
Still a fantastic deal and I am not stealing/pirating. They let you keep a copy out as long as you want and you can even buy it off them for a discounted price.
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One of their distribution centers is in Austin as well so I usually get my games the next morning.
nightprowler10
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Yeah I've had it for ages, so was wondering what plan could save me money. Its really dirt cheap when you think of how expensive the games are.
blake
School Cricketer
Again, regarding the issue of pirating.. yes, it is bad, but some people are making it seem a lot worse than it really is. I highly doubt that Transmission closed down just because of people pirating AC09 which is what some people seem to think. Let's get some facts straight - the majority of pirates wouldn't actually buy the game anyway. A lot of people that pirate are ones that either don't have enough money, live far away, etc. etc. The point is that they weren't going to buy the game originally, so in effect pirating costs the company nothing anyway. Of course, pirating is not great but when the reality is that the game wasn't going to get sold anyway, what's really the difference?
Cricketdude
Chairman of Selectors
Lost turnover is still a loss. If there are 500,000 people who have x game, and 200,000 haven't paid for it, that's a big loss. Whether they were going to buy the game or not is irrelevant as to whether it's a loss or not. They still have it without paying for it.
MattW
Administrator
It isn't just relevant, it is the whole point of what a loss is. 'Damages' is what you call the 'losses' from piracy. You can't lose something you never had.
You can't map pirated copies to lost sales 1:1, it fails any logical reasoning on where pirated copies come from. There is certainly a proportion of sales lost to piracy, but if the music industry is any example, some pirates are also a high source for legitimate game sales as well (pirates are often much higher consumers, and purchase some and pirate other things.). It almost certainly doesn't balance out, but considering we've had piracy as long as we've had computers, any business that doesn't factor that in to its balance sheet isn't being realistic.
MasterBlaster76
ICC Chairman
Exactly! A friend of mine had his details fall into the wrong hands and they tried to buy a ?1000 laptop. Fortunately, he uses a prepaid card, so the transaction failed. Sure, there would be the added trauma if the cash was taken physically - but other than that, stealing is stealing.
Kshitiz_Indian
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Al though these are very big companies, but if they don't pay the publisher something for every rented copy, I think that is no more than disguised piracy. You bought something for $40, and are giving it around to people, most of the times the money you earn exceeds what you bought it for. And that is wrong, because each time the game is played by a new person who although paid, but the company didn't get anything out of it. Kinda the same thing that I buy a original DVD of the game, copy it, sell 10 copies for $5 each.
As I said, its not illegal, but its morally as wrong as piracy, unless of course, the companies pay some kind of fees or buy them at different prices, in which case my above rant is totally irrelevant and I offer an apology to whomsoever I offended, even though I didn't intend to.
Al though these are very big companies, but if they don't pay the publisher something for every rented copy, I think that is no more than disguised piracy. You bought something for $40, and are giving it around to people, most of the times the money you earn exceeds what you bought it for. And that is wrong, because each time the game is played by a new person who although paid, but the company didn't get anything out of it. Kinda the same thing that I buy a original DVD of the game, copy it, sell 10 copies for $5 each.
As I said, its not illegal, but its morally as wrong as piracy, unless of course, the companies pay some kind of fees or buy them at different prices, in which case my above rant is totally irrelevant and I offer an apology to whomsoever I offended, even though I didn't intend to.
You have to get licenses to be a rental company, they aren't cowboys.
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pcfan123
Guest
As I said, its not illegal, but its morally as wrong as piracy, unless of course, the companies pay some kind of fees or buy them at different prices, in which case my above rant is totally irrelevant and I offer an apology to whomsoever I offended, even though I didn't intend to.
Uhhhhhhhh No its not piracy. By your logic Blockbuster is a piracy operation. These rental companies pay massive fees and licenses. Its not as if they went to Wal-Mart and bought a copy of the game and are renting it out.
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