SOPA

[Treewyrm]

Except in copyright law copyright infringement isn't theft. Let's not make a mistake of assuming it's the same. It isn't. Neither in law nor in common sense.

My experience? I found a lot of good music through torrents and supported authors by purchasing from them directly or donating a sum equal to retail CD price if they have an option to. Same goes for games. And then there are older games where all original copies were long time sold out, how you're going to obtain them? Should you find a legal mean do the money goes to developers for those? Most often not - those development studios no longer exist, the IP rights were sold and re-sold again, where it ends up in hands of those had nothing to do with making the game at all. Support the man, but I find less and less reasons to support man-in-the-middle given how consistently worse they become by pushing DRM-laden poor man's ports and drive prices higher and higher.