In Time

Expanding on this, that post i reblogged just now made me think about how piracy is like a library for video games. The library buys and stocks books (person buys and cracks the game), patrons come in and borrow them (torrents the games), doesn't matter why they do it (broke, don't like spending money on books, want to test the waters of a series before committing to spending, etc) no one says libraries are killing book sales, they're just making it so people who wouldn't otherwise have books get to read. Much like torrenting gets people to play games they otherwise wouldn't. Maybe they can't afford every game they buy, maybe they end up not liking it, maybe they do and end up buying it to support the dev. Either way it's just more people playing games.