Warnings and Site Ban Theater

[HeyYou]

56 minutes ago, showler said:

This is a bizarre sentence.

 

What does that even mean????

[showler]

12 minutes ago, HeyYou said:

What does that even mean????

I'm guessing something along the lines of "I stole a TV from Walmart but I sent five bucks to some random company on Temu so it evens out."?

[AaronOfMpls]

On 9/21/2024 at 3:06 PM, showler said:

This is a bizarre sentence.

On 9/21/2024 at 4:02 PM, HeyYou said:

What does that even mean????

Searching around, Shopee is an online store in a bunch of Southeast Asian countries.  Maybe that person bought a cheap bootleg copy of the game from someone on it.

[RedHeadAngel]

Whenever I see people who get banned for pirating, I wonder why they bother. Yes, maybe you can get a game or whatever for cheaper, but you're also gambling with your freedom. Are people seriously willing to risk getting caught bootlegging media instead of just paying for it? How can it be worth the risk?

[AaronOfMpls]

@RedHeadAngel Realistically, legal efforts against piracy tend to target distributors more than consumers.  And even then it's pretty much impossible to completely stop it.

That said, there are other risks that deterred some of us, like downloading a virus or a broken game, or having a troubled conscience.

[LenaWolfBravil]

8 hours ago, RedHeadAngel said:

Whenever I see people who get banned for pirating, I wonder why they bother. Yes, maybe you can get a game or whatever for cheaper, but you're also gambling with your freedom. Are people seriously willing to risk getting caught bootlegging media instead of just paying for it? How can it be worth the risk?

Not everyone lives in the country where the pirated wares originated from, or in a country that would be willing to extradite you to the owner. Basically, as soon as goods move across the border, it becomes too expensive and too difficult for the owners of the copyright to pursue individual consumers. So unless their country of residence makes its own efforts to stop piracy, these consumers don't have much to worry about. And as @AaronOfMpls pointed out, any legal efforts across the border will be most likely targeting distributors, that's a much larger fish compared to individual consumers.

And another point is that for many people a pirated copy is the only kind of copy of that game they could get because the game is simply not available in their country to buy legally.

Of course it is still pretty stupid to boast about your piracy here on Nexus!  

[zixi]

'Pirating' is a euphemism for theft and the problem with euphemisms is that people don't always understand what is meant...

I don't think everyone goes into the situation with eyes wide open. I used to help on a certain photo site help desk a very very very long time ago before it grew all big and important. A lot of members helped there - it was something one did. New members sometimes violated rules without realising - quite often because they didn't know how the site functioned. We'd see an account with public adult photos simply because people didn't know how to make content private and they'd arrive with everything hanging out so to speak; we'd be trying to sort it out with some incredibly naive user who did hunt and peck on the keyboard because they couldn't type... I used to wonder why they didn't practise with a photo of something innocuous first but no - they went in with a splash and soon found the water a lot deeper than they expected and we were very soon diving in to save them or at least throw them a life belt...

There were people there too who posted photos they'd found on the web and even on the site and honestly some didn't realise that you were supposed to post photos you'd taken not something you'd found and liked. Members got really angry and nasty with them because of the 'theft' and in some cases it was really unfair because what had been done had been done in all innocence.

Of course, the law - anywhere -  isn't very good at being kind where ignorance is concerned...

 

 

 

Edited September 24 by zixi
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[RedHeadAngel]

2 hours ago, AaronOfMpls said:

@RedHeadAngel Realistically, legal efforts against piracy tend to target distributors more than consumers.  And even then it's pretty much impossible to completely stop it.

That said, there are other risks that deterred some of us, like downloading a virus or a broken game, or having a troubled conscience.

1 hour ago, LenaWolfBravil said:

Not everyone lives in the country where the pirated wares originated from, or in a country that would be willing to extradite you to the owner. Basically, as soon as goods move across the border, it becomes too expensive and too difficult for the owners of the copyright to pursue individual consumers. So unless their country of residence makes its own efforts to stop piracy, these consumers don't have much to worry about. And as @AaronOfMpls pointed out, any legal efforts across the border will be most likely targeting distributors, that's a much larger fish compared to individual consumers.

And another point is that for many people a pirated copy is the only kind of copy of that game they could get because the game is simply not available in their country to buy legally.

Of course it is still pretty stupid to boast about your piracy here on Nexus!  

It doesn't matter. You can still get in legal trouble for buying pirated media. Not to mention the safety risks that come with it.

[RedHeadAngel]

I see many people getting in trouble for using profanity. That, coupled with the number of users who get banned for piracy, tells me that people don't read the guidelines. I know that's nothing new for the Nexus veterans, but it's different for someone relatively new like me. So, there you go. How hard is it to take 5 minutes to read the site rules? I did it. What's your excuse?

As a side note, I have nothing against profanity. While I don't use it here and almost never on LoversLab, I do use it quite a bit in real life. However, I still follow the rules because I don't want the month of work I've put into my stuff to be lost because I couldn't avoid talking like a sailor.

[LenaWolfBravil]

46 minutes ago, RedHeadAngel said:

It doesn't matter. You can still get in legal trouble for buying pirated media. Not to mention the safety risks that come with it.

Safety risks - yes. Get in trouble - no. Not in many countries.