18-Year-Old Modern Warfare 2 Pirate Was Arrested

[Leo Natan]

Piracy for idealism and sending a message = (Y)

Morons selling pirated crap for cash = (N)

[Treemonkeys]

Good, then you will miss out a great game because you are supporting some idiot that you don't even know LOL

How am I supporting him? I'm not getting the game specifically because I don't think it will be great. I like dedicated servers in my FPS games, and CoD single player has always been a yawn fest for me.

[resol612]

rate of piracy is logarithmically proportional to price of object

with such a screwed up pricing, it's no wonder.

[DrunknMunky Veteran]

Another one got caught today, it's all over the papers. "Teenager Arrested in Computer Crime Scandal" [...] I made a discovery today. I found a computer. Wait a second, this is cool. It does what I want it to. If it makes a mistake, it's because I screwed it up. Not because it doesn't like me... Or feels threatened by me.. Or thinks I'm a smart ass.. Or doesn't like teaching and shouldn't be here...

Damn kid. All he does is play games. They're all alike.[...] I am a hacker, and this is my manifesto. You may stop this individual, but you can't stop us all... after all, we're all alike.

http://www.mithral.com/~beberg/manifesto.html

;) :p

But yeah stupid kids over that that forum shouldn't be so quick to show off and pretend they were scene with MW2 rips.

[OOOOOOOO]

Piracy of any kind is simply wrong. If someone doesn't like something they should attempt to make their own of something. Not got the money? How did the companies who make the things start? Small. There are amazing startups coming out and we're in a time where with zero cash you can create something amazing that people will love and buy into. Stealing something and sharing it out ... be it via stealing or buying physical items, or by copying and uploading and sharing or even by simply downloading something ... either way it's the same principal, that you're taking something you have no right to. Profit or not, you're stealing.

So ... this guy is a thief. Does he deserve jail? Maybe not. A hefty fine and a smack in the face maybe. But the fact is ... he stole.

[ViperAFK]

the title makes it sound like he downloaded it an then a swat team arrived...

what actually happend is he physically PAID for stollen goods and then took money for doing this on the understanding he was going to copy and re distribute the thing!

i'd hardly compare it to downloading a copy for personal use.... not that thats ok either...

This.