Here I'm not talking about what your stance on piracy is, or even stuff like 'I only do this because of XYZ'. Here I'm talking about guys who are obviously doing piracy and pretending they're not because they think the people reading this stuff is dumber than they are. I'm guessing people try to do that to cover their tracks but everytime I read it it gives me the feeling of 'who are you kidding here?' Some of the classic examples I've found:
1. Delete after 24 hours. Beyond the fact there was never a law that says you can sample something you didn't own, I'm sure very few people really delete it after 24 hours. And even if you did, I think you'd have to be pretty gullible to believe that means anything.
2. For education purposes only. I don't know, given the quality of some of the translations maybe the guys doing them could use better education, but I'm not sure what educational value the consumer gets out of the product.
3. Japanese dojin games. In Japan apparently people make some games (could be any game) and press 100 copies with a CD burner and lug them to a convention and sell them for $10 a piece. This means games of this genre is nearly impossible to distribute without piracy. Often there is nothing beyond the first 100 copies someone pressed and the owner of the game has no intention to ever press more copies (it'd be a pain just to mail it out from his home I guess). Yet despite the fact that you're playing a game which is almost impossible to get without piracy, you'd not be allowed to ask for torrents of the game (usually only on American sites, Asian sites don't care).
Tsukihime has been out of print for like at least 5 years, yet apparently you're not supposed to ask for torrents of that game because clearly everyone went to Japan and paid a ninja $1000 for it while it was out for their legitmate copy (it was a rare find even then, like way rarer than Suikoden 2).
When Fate: Hallow Ataraxia was released, the DVD had like a 2 or 3 GB file of junk that's obviously designed to slow down torrent. The Asian sites cracked it pretty quickly but the Americans seem to be slow, and the American sites had a ton of message about 'needing a lot of space to install this game'. Of course, if you actually had the DVD, it clearly won't install the junk data, so the Americans were just pirating the wrong game (or at least nonideal for getting it quickly).
4. All rights reserved blah blah blah. No you don't believe all rights are reserved or you wouldn't be pirating this in the first place.
I find that Americans are the most hypocritical, probably because in Asia everything is pirated anyway so there's no reason to pretend you're getting this stuff legitmately, though even in a country with like a 90% piracy rate, you'll still find some of the usual verbage dealing with piracy.
1. Delete after 24 hours. Beyond the fact there was never a law that says you can sample something you didn't own, I'm sure very few people really delete it after 24 hours. And even if you did, I think you'd have to be pretty gullible to believe that means anything.
2. For education purposes only. I don't know, given the quality of some of the translations maybe the guys doing them could use better education, but I'm not sure what educational value the consumer gets out of the product.
3. Japanese dojin games. In Japan apparently people make some games (could be any game) and press 100 copies with a CD burner and lug them to a convention and sell them for $10 a piece. This means games of this genre is nearly impossible to distribute without piracy. Often there is nothing beyond the first 100 copies someone pressed and the owner of the game has no intention to ever press more copies (it'd be a pain just to mail it out from his home I guess). Yet despite the fact that you're playing a game which is almost impossible to get without piracy, you'd not be allowed to ask for torrents of the game (usually only on American sites, Asian sites don't care).
Tsukihime has been out of print for like at least 5 years, yet apparently you're not supposed to ask for torrents of that game because clearly everyone went to Japan and paid a ninja $1000 for it while it was out for their legitmate copy (it was a rare find even then, like way rarer than Suikoden 2).
When Fate: Hallow Ataraxia was released, the DVD had like a 2 or 3 GB file of junk that's obviously designed to slow down torrent. The Asian sites cracked it pretty quickly but the Americans seem to be slow, and the American sites had a ton of message about 'needing a lot of space to install this game'. Of course, if you actually had the DVD, it clearly won't install the junk data, so the Americans were just pirating the wrong game (or at least nonideal for getting it quickly).
4. All rights reserved blah blah blah. No you don't believe all rights are reserved or you wouldn't be pirating this in the first place.
I find that Americans are the most hypocritical, probably because in Asia everything is pirated anyway so there's no reason to pretend you're getting this stuff legitmately, though even in a country with like a 90% piracy rate, you'll still find some of the usual verbage dealing with piracy.
