Thief: Deadly Shadows Gold [May 05, 2004, 1:29 pm ET] – Share – Viewing Comments
Eidos' 'Thief Deadly
Shadows' Steals May 25 Ship Date in North America (thanks Frans) is the
announcement that ION Storm's third installment in the Thief series begun by
Looking Glass Games is complete for both PC and Xbox, and expected to meet its
planned May 26 in-store date. Here's a bit:
Thief: Deadly Shadows places you in the role of Master Thief Garrett, the quintessential anti-hero that steals from the rich and keeps for himself. In Thief: Deadly Shadows, Garrett finds himself assisting the Keepers, the secret society that trained Garrett in his youth. He is tasked with preventing a prophesised Dark Age from coming into fruition. Thief: Deadly Shadows was developed by Ion Storm, creators of the critically-acclaimed Deus Ex series.
Thief: Deadly Shadows will continue the Ion Storm tradition of open-ended emergent gameplay the studio is famous for. The freedom to choose a unique play style is what sets Thief: Deadly Shadows apart from any other game further immersing the player into the adventure. Thief: Deadly Shadows features a powerful physics system, startlingly smart AI, enhanced character modelling and animation, a groundbreaking sound propagation system and state- of-the art lighting and graphics for which Ion Storm is famous for.
Alright, so even ignore the per-car manufacturing costs then. The bulk of the cost of making each car is still the design and manufacturing infrastructure. Stealing one of their cars doesn't prevent them from selling the ones that didn't get stolen (except to the people who are driving the stolen ones, of course...)all of that makes up the bulk of the cost of the car.Right, and by stealing that car, you take away the item that they created so that it cannot be sold to anyone. By downloading a piece of software, you have not taken away their ability to sell their product to others.
It's all irrelevant, though. A software product is not the media it comes on; it's not the box it gets shipped in. The product that is on sale is the program and data that runs on your computer. The media is simply the way in which it gets there. If you steal the software, you're stealing the product, and despite the fact that people seem to justify it to themselves because there is no tangible physical object involved, and they can do it from the comfort of their own home, it is exactly the same as stealing a car, or shoplifting. You are illegally taking something which you have no right to take; it's that simple.
If someone makes a product, they decide the terms of sale. You might not like the terms, but that doesn't give you any rights to change them. You certainly have the right to not give that shop/company/person your business in protest, but you do not have the right to take their product on your terms.
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