/jp/ - Otaku Culture

>>7041716
>1. Piracy is theft by the letter of the law
The only reason people have spouted the word theft over and over again is because it sounds bad and because these people wants to badmouth piracy.
Strictly speaking, it is a whole lot of other stuff, but not theft.

>>7041584
>I was pointing out that if they bought a physical copy of every eroge they pirated it would overwhelm all but the grandest of abodes.
And not to butcher your argument in anyway, but I can't immagine someone buying everything they pirate, at least not when you are talking about people pirating on this scale.
You can pirate something because you want to check it out.
You do not however generally buy something only to check it out unless you have some solid pointers as to why it could be worth having.
Besides, you can actually fit alot of boxes in a room if you just try.

Besides, it isn't as if downloadable editions "works" for "all of the Japanese" or antyhing even though you may not have implied that yourself.
They know the marketing value of having good physical copies, it is why they so often aren't just an empty box with a bland disc, even though it isn't exactly uncommon. There have been manga and the like, on the brink of cancellation, and then having released a special volume packed together with a figurine, and suddenly having hit the top lists with it. They do know that stuff works.
Downloadable editions are for people with money to burn and with a passive interest who care neither more or less.

>>7041716
>1. Piracy is theft by the letter of the law
The only reason people have spouted the word theft over and over again is because it sounds bad and because these people wants to badmouth piracy.
Strictly speaking, it is a whole lot of other stuff, but not theft.

>>7041584
>I was pointing out that if they bought a physical copy of every eroge they pirated it would overwhelm all but the grandest of abodes.
And not to butcher your argument in anyway, but I can't immagine someone buying everything they pirate, at least not when you are talking about people pirating on this scale.
You can pirate something because you want to check it out.
You do not however generally buy something only to check it out unless you have some solid pointers as to why it could be worth having.
Besides, you can actually fit alot of boxes in a room if you just try.

Besides, it isn't as if downloadable editions "works" for "all of the Japanese" or antyhing even though you may not have implied that yourself.
They know the marketing value of having good physical copies, it is why they so often aren't just an empty box with a bland disc, even though it isn't exactly uncommon. There have been manga and the like, on the brink of cancellation, and then having released a special volume packed together with a figurine, and suddenly having hit the top lists with it. They do know that stuff works.
Downloadable editions are for people with money to burn and with a passive interest who care neither more or less.