Re: I feel this was unnecessary.
you know, one of the things that bugged me majorly on this topic was the inclusion of people who are too young and live with their parents. A lot of us were in that position before, and generally one either had to wait on special days to get something, or work hard through chores and getting good grades in school. However, I'd like to think parents would be a lot more disappointed in their child if their first thought to get something that has to be paid and purchased is to steal it through pirating it. Heck, usually waving the reward stick at times was a way to get children to actually sit down and do their duty. If they're going to pirate the things they want, I'm guessing it's not so much the parents not being able to buy them things, but the child not trying at all to earn that privilege. The rate of getting things I wanted wasn't that really high when I did not have my own sources of income, but it was not non-existent. It also meant I'd put more effort to picking something I would use and play a lot, rather than picking any old thing. And of course, I'd try to keep this up by doing well in school and performing other tasks expected of me and then some.
Note: I do acknowledge the problem some individuals and families have with conversion rates and not having access to paypal for purchasing. However, methods of payment are generally being expanded and worked on, and I thought some places had methods of direct purchases with credit/debit?
Even so, the stance of the website here is to not encourage pirating and other forms of theft, especially since recent laws about actually hold the website responsible for whatever is posted on here (I actually lost track of that legal hoopla, need to find it again). Nothing is stopping someone from making a website to discuss pirating for movies and the like, just remember you'll have to deal with whatever legal issues may come your way with the current draconian methods of enforcement at this moment. And if your response is that you don't want to get in trouble or deal with that, why are you expecting the staff of this website to deal with that then?
Note 2: Even so, you always have the option of not consuming this media, or asking for someone to purchase it for you. We have a library of various games that are free and well done on their own. As well, this is also not including the access to MUDs which provide months of content for free, and coming with soundpacks at times. And I held myself on this stuff for a while until income became open for my use.
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