;) I just, of course.
You know, for someone who is trying so hard to sound pretentious, you might want to spell the word right: I jest, of course.;) I kid, of course.
The difference is that drugs have/no/ legitimate use, as opposed to guns and modchips, which can at least be argued to be used for legitimate purposes.
It's actually pretty cheap. The way I went was to get a nice nVidia card with vivo, that way you get the video card and the capture card for the price of one. Then I grabbed a nice free program called dscaler, which can be found online, to deinterlace the video signal. The only problem is, the video card doesn't take a direct coaxial connection, so I have mine hooked up through a VCR, which makes it easy to use consoles on my PC as well:).
I'm not depriving them of any money. You're assuming that everyone who pirates a cd/movie/book/software/game would head out and buy that if they weren't able to copyright it, however this is definitely not the case. Generally, the people who would buy it are the people who will buy it anyway if it's any good. I have a friend who has over ten thousand dollars worth of material on his hard drive. When he really likes something, be it an album, movie, book or game, he buys it, but he trys everything first to see what's worth his money. He would certainly not be able to afford all of that otherwise, so the only thing that would result in him being unable to find it online would be a whole lot of stores getting a whole lot of returns. He wouldn't pay for anything more than he already does.
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in before, you might want to get your quote tags right... XD
Damn right. Instead of grinding giant rats, you get to go to school to up your intel. skill!
The difference is that drugs have /no/ legitimate use, as opposed to guns and modchips, which can at least be argued to be used for legitimate purposes.
I do believe that's called a dystopia ;).
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It's actually pretty cheap. The way I went was to get a nice nVidia card with vivo, that way you get the video card and the capture card for the price of one. Then I grabbed a nice free program called dscaler, which can be found online, to deinterlace the video signal. The only problem is, the video card doesn't take a direct coaxial connection, so I have mine hooked up through a VCR, which makes it easy to use consoles on my PC as well :).
I'm not depriving them of any money. You're assuming that everyone who pirates a cd/movie/book/software/game would head out and buy that if they weren't able to copyright it, however this is definitely not the case. Generally, the people who would buy it are the people who will buy it anyway if it's any good. I have a friend who has over ten thousand dollars worth of material on his hard drive. When he really likes something, be it an album, movie, book or game, he buys it, but he trys everything first to see what's worth his money. He would certainly not be able to afford all of that otherwise, so the only thing that would result in him being unable to find it online would be a whole lot of stores getting a whole lot of returns. He wouldn't pay for anything more than he already does.