Survey: 93 percent of Dutch youngsters download illegally

Downloading is a complicated issue. Read more here:

http://www.cato-unbound.org/2008/06/09/rasmus-fleischer/the-future-of-copyright/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-copyright

That's what Cracks are for. They enable games to be played without a cd being in the drive or a key code.

Also, I think downloading old games is technically illegal (although I don't know why, it's not like any store is selling N64 games still) too and they don't require anything but an emulator.

I think it's illegal because Nintendo can still sell them like on the Virtual Console.

The Gamestop in my mall sold N64 games in a bargain bin. Then they took it out a couple years ago. Sons of bitches.

It's illegal because it's in the law that these things are copyrighted for decades. The fact that Nintendo can sell them on virtual console just provides a small amount of logical morality to the law.

Every one of them.

Just eat a space cake and smoke a hash joint and you're set for the internetz.

Maybe if game/movie companies did away with 'region codes', piracy would be lessened dramatically as well would eliminate the need for mod chips etc. across the board.

Regulating formats for the benefit of a corporation leading to price discrimination and creating a barrier for free trade is technically illegal too and has yet to be officially fought against...

But, "pirates" are the only bad guys according to popular opinion...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD_region_code

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regional_lockout

As far as I'm concerned, if I bought a Japanese/PAL region game or movie and wanted to play it on a US 360 or Wii etc...and paid good money for it...I should damn well be able to do so without some message coming up onscreen giving me BS about it.

Period.

S.W.A.T. kats ruled.

khan, your taste in TV is great. two great cartoon network shows that sadly got canceled. i'm losing respect for them because they're adding live action shows. shows as in more than one. on freakin cartoon network. not even their current lineup of total drama island/action, 6teen, chowder, flapjack, and ed,edd,and eddy can make up for that.

They are ditching the 'cartoon network' name as it turns out.

And Megas XLR is the greatest show to have ever hit CN. I can't stand 6teen but TDI is tolerable.

I wish Ed, Edd, and Eddy/Fosters weren't done for.

Khan... all I had to read was Megas XLR to know you were amazing...

swat kats was just icing on that cake... and I want to eat it all up


sorry, just loved both of those shows, shame all cartoon network is doing is throwing in reality tv and shows with the same actors in practically the same rolls *coughTotalDramaIsland/ActionAnd6Teen*

TDI is actually pretty good. I'm kinda looking forward to TDA

But i feel a little sick to my stomach when i see these horrible live-action shows they're pitching for this summer. what the hell, man.

They really oughta bring back the Funimation dub of One Piece.

Exactly. Do they count people that do both as just a dirty pirate? What about those that pirate then determine if they want to invest in a purchase or if the game was not worth their time, let alone money?

Perhaps they clarify in the Dutch original?

fatass, you do know that ed,edd,and eddy isn't finished right? they're just working on the movie. but yeah, fosters' death was a sad thing. seeing the special credits on the last episode made me tear up a bit.

6teen is great, just because of the awkward little moments they have on it. some episodes are completely unbearable and some are masterpieces. it all depends.

oh, and toonami never should have left. or had that last 'update'. do they show naruto shippuuden on any TV network in america?

AS is going bad too. Anime only one night a week, and decent comedy being phased out for crap like tim and eric, delocated, etc,etc.

TV channels becoming crappy is even more of a reason that i watch stuff online/download it.

The fun thing is that apparently (can't remember where i read this) ratings for One Piece went up, considerably, after they switched over to the Funimation dub, and they still canceled it

They're making an Ed, Edd, and Eddy movie though? Kickass.

True, TDI/A and 6teen are good, just the same actors kind of bugs me, Ed, Edd and Eddy was great until recently when it started going a little downhill, and well Fosters? I loved the show... so sad to see it died...
I really do miss Toonami, it started going downhill but I remember when they first started airing it... I first saw Outlaw Star on that, and got me hooked heh.

As for Naruto, they stopped showing. They hit the "two years of filler" part Japan was stuck in. As for Shippuden, they were no where near it, so your best bet is fansubs, and I've heard you can watch it on the naruto site during one of the new commercials for the cardgame.

And I agree. AS is going down too, Tom goes to the mayor was bland, and T&EAS:GJ just... god makes me lose all hope for humanity with the crap they air. I actually like Delocated a bit, best new thing they've aired.
I miss the dedicated "anime saturdays" though. Now all the anime is shown later at night which sucks to be honest. Bring back Yu Yu Hakusho, bring back and don't edit Outlaw Star, get rid of Inuyasha (it got bad after what, 4th 5th time naraku was killed?). Keep Bleach, keep Big O. Get Neo Genesis Evengallien back. Hell, they need "Grenadier" and "Excel Saga". And please... Rurouni Kenshin? I miss that show...

you guys actually like ed edd and eddy? i always thought it was one of the worst shows on cartoon network, but maybe that was because i watched it dubbed into dutch

All of this nostalgic Cartoon Network spiel, and not one mention of "Courage the Cowardly Dog."

For Shame! :P

Courage was many orders of magnitude greater than Ed/Edd/Eddy.

we were mostly talking about the current lineup as in new episodes. courage stopped airing new episodes years ago. but yeah, that was a ballsy show. so was that cow & chicken show.

Oh yeah! I had forgotten about Cow & Chicken!

Weird stuff......

Why? Cause we have legalized prostitution and weed?

nvm. Can I come over and play at your house? :)

Yeah but I'm grounded from prostitutes and weed, after the dead hooker that was found under my bunkbed.

lol! My bad. I really should apologize for not cleaning up my playthings.

9 year old pop culture references tend to go over people's heads, especially when it was based on the weakest of the trilogy.

Yeah, that will happen...

Now, if you guys please excuse me, I am going to go for a schmoke and a pancake.

downvoted for a movie quote? i thought it was well played. asshattery. i do wish i had legalized weed though.. freakin a.

@MystileArmor
Weed is not legalized. It's just legally tolerated.

Yeah I know it's "legally tollerated" but it wouldn't have done much good for the freakin' joke. I've lived for 20 years near Amsterdam, so I'm well aware of certain laws.

wow..

maybe you should start

The Internets are (collectively) lies!

Sorry, just finished Portal today...so gotta be late on this bandwagon...

I'm dutch and the only thing I pirated was Rock Band 2 for the Wii (NTSC version).

The piece of crap still hasn't come out in Europe, or maybe it was released VERY recently since last time I checked it was going to be released sometime May.

But seriously that took a long long time.

Well don't worry, 100% of the people in my college course download stuff illegally, most of the time because we all get stuff before the release anyways. If its worth it we buy, if not they should have made a better game...

It's mostly music that the Dutch download (from what I've noticed in the people I know), but luckily for the music industry ringtones sell like hotcakes

Nhe, I wouldn't worry. I'm actually portuguese and I already went to visit Holland. Nice country you got there people. Portugal is trying to suceed the Netherlands in legalizing weed and hoes. But the hipocrisy level can sometimes be too big.

Jokin.

Actually youth people downloading games and videos and music, aint that big of a deal really. See it more as something every youngster passes through normally. Kind of like any youngster will pass that time where he tries a cigarrete, or has a year or so, where he goes out a lot and drinks a lot of alcohol, or, the time where one tries some dope fiendish drugs.

The sins people!! Watch out for the sins!