Comments by "Crazy Eyes" (@CrizzyEyes) on "Is All Piracy Equal? Exploring Gray Areas: When Is It REALLY "Stealing" ??" video.

@Maximilian1990 So you believe that everyone who pirates a piece of media is able to pay for that media? If I release a game only in US and Europe, someone in China who pirates my game is not even a blip on my radar. I would have never sold my game there, thus, that person did not make me lose money. This is to say nothing of the fact that your initial reply is completely made up on the spot. Nobody defines "theft" in that manner, except similarly interested and similarly ignorant C-level executives.
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It's speculated that many if not most EULAs would not be admissible in court, but end users typically don't have the money or willpower to challenge them
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Games are a tragic industry due to how many people that fundamentally cannot wrap their minds around software, as a concept, manage them. The sad thing is people just like him work as C-level executives, paying firms like Denuvo reams of money just because it makes them "feel good" and prevents piracy for roughly a week. They don't see the irony of paying Denuvo hundreds of thousands of dollars either.
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@TheRelevantUnknown The only problem is, that point is debatable; his salary may not be affected, or some cases may even be bolstered, by ignoring piracy.
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@LightSilver7 Take your meds.
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@avananana You're blowing the issue way out of proportion. Vast majority of users will never pirate because, despite what Rossman says, the service from pirated media is usually of lesser quality for one major reason: obscurity. There have been ups and downs; music piracy for example was really huge until services like iTunes and Spotify came around. But it is usually less convenient for a non-tech-savvy user to pirate things.
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I just don't have the attachment to physical disks and cartridges that most people do. If I want something with physicality, I play a tabletop game. CDs and cartridges are flawed, fragile devices that will eventually be unusable unless preserved very carefully. Or, the devices used to read them will wear out first.
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System of a Down's "Steal This Album!" comes to mind. The CD print was made to look like a storebought CD-R with the title written on it with a Sharpie.
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