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Originally posted by Mattitude_Inc:
sounds like a bunch of geeky teenagers who have never even looked at a female breast...or gays :S
Please don't say that because you make us sound the same as them. I also want to point out that someone posted a link on that thread that leads to this tread. If we are trying to support bishoujo games and turn potential fans into real fans then we can't just gather here and bash them non-stop. If anyone from that thread is reading these posts then please don't get too upset. The people who post on this BBS are usually very friendly and we only want you to see bishoujo games for what they are. Most of us don't want to offend anyone.
As far as being a bishoujo game pirate, I've heard some pretty unusual arguements supporting the download of these games. Someone once said that it's not any different than borrowing a game that your friend bought. Nobody is going to say that you can't share, right. Downloading is just "file sharing." I think that there is an easy defense against this kind of arguement. When people share games and movies with their friends, someone actually bought the original item and they are sharing with their friends. Who's going to care if someone copies a CD for their friends. It's people who make things available for everyone to download that do damage. That will provide limitless copies to anyone. I like to share my things with people I know and they do the same for me. But all of us are buying the original items. But because the English bishoujo game market is very small and weak, I generally avoid copying translated games. I will copy pure Japanese games for my friends because they are very expensive and the Japanese game market is not in danger. I'm buying the games, and I only make a few copies for a few people. I don't think that the Japanese market is too worried about a couple Americans getting copies of a game that their friend bought, especially since some of the games don't even have copy protection. I like to copy Japanese games that are unlike games that are on the English market. The people I give them to already like bishoujo games but they see that there's even more diversity out there. That doesn't mean that I'm going to make these games available for download. No way! It's just a favor for fellow fans. I don't give anything to free loaders. I just don't like to be the only one who knows about a game just because nobody else imports it. I got a new game and I just made a copy for my friend. It's a game by Cronus, "Inukko Puni Puni." All of the girls in the game have dog ears and tails and are cute! The artwork is very soft and it stands out from other studios. But nobody has it. I made a special request to Himeya shop for this game. Now my friends and I can talk about it and we think it would make a great g-collections game, mainly because it's slapstick type of humor that seems like something you'd get from G-collections. But of course, it would be great if PeaPri got this title, too. I'd be glad to copy this game for members of this BBS because I know that everyone here is a good fan who supports these games. I'd just mail the game to you. It's okay with me if a few fans get copies of a Japanese game from me. I'd love it if everyone would buy it, but that's not going to happen. Just in case, here's where I got it:
http://shop.himeya.com/products/adult_win_jp_ac/inukko_puni_puni/inukko_puni_puni.html
I won't make more than a couple copies of anything, because I'm not a pirate. I won't accept any request from a junior member. So if you guys want to bash me for making a few copies of Japanese games for a few of my friends or other bishoujo game fans, that's okay. Bash away. I think there is a big difference between personally copying a few Japanese games for a few friends and fans compared with blindly letting anyone download the translated games that are hardly making profit. What do you guys think?