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On Mar 11, 10:23 am, pc games <pcgame...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> We know PIRATES are extremely damaging for PC Games cause they steal
> PC Games and by doing that reduce the so needed income developers need
> to stay in business and create more games.
> But are pirates the only ones that reduce sales and reduce income of
> developers?
>
> Let me give you 3 example of "fictional" PC Gamers called "John",
> "James" and "Jim"
>
> "John" story
> John enjoys very much PC Games, he buys them all, one day a friend of
> his asked him to lend him a game he has cause he enjoyed very much the
> demo and he accepted it.
> By lending his game to a friend "John" reduced that games sale by one
> unit cause his friend should have instead bought his own unit
>
> "James" story
> James enjoys very much PC Games, he buys them all, but one day he
> decided to try out the 2nd hand market in one of his games in which he
> already made a backup for himself, so he sold one of his games in the
> used 2nd hand market to another PC Gamer
> By selling in the used 2nd hand "James" reduced that games sale by one
> unit cause the buyer should have instead bought it new
>
> "Jim" story
> Jim enjoys very much PC Games, but he decided that he would steal
> instead of buying PC Games, so he downloaded from an illegal site a
> commercial game
> By downloading an illegal copy "Jim" reduced that games sale by one
> unit cause the should have instead bought it
>
> Its clear the only pirate among the 3 is Jim, but at the end who did
> reduce sales for PC Games? All 3

Wrong. In the "James" story, since he kept a backup and sold the
original, he is also in possession of an illegal copy, and is a
pirate. Once the game is sold or otherwise changes ownership, he no
longer has a right to backup / archive copies, as he doesn't legally
own the title at all..

In the "John" story, you do not state that any copies of the original
game still exist in John's posession, so there should be no problem-
one copy was purchased, and one copy is installed.
However, given the arguement you are trying to make, I think we are
meant to assume that he left the title installed on his system, in
which case, once again, he has an illegal copy on his system.

So, up to interpretation of the circumstances in the first case,
either 2 or all 3 of these people are pirates.