Hi Rev,
About myself, I have been here at SX ever since You, Mowglie, SkankinMonkey, and all the other key founders were around. Also I'v seen the rise and fall of SX many times over. I never activly posted in the forums until all the direct linking to games were removed. Some time later, SX decided to host FTPs which is basicly just another type of "Address" which links to a place to download games. The only diffrence is, its a direct link to a personal computer, and not a Free-Drive type service.
About people and paying for games, some games may be expensive for some people. But by some peoples argument, they try to justify the theift/copying of software because they can't aford the price.
I think already there is an inharent flaw in their logic which sometimes scares me. I think if you owned a big screen TV, that I couldn't afford, you wouldn't appreciate it if I went and stole it from you, would you? And I sure as hell know if I said to you "I have a right to do so, because i can't afford it." you'd be even more angry at my justification! But the fact is, people try to justify it all the time on SX with pirating SS games! Yet, they feel they can seperate whats good from bad, and try to do things others cannot to justfiy it in their minds!
Now, just because sega doesn't make development royaltys, doesn't mean what you do dosn't hurt people. Other people down the product distribution chain who would like to sell left over import stock, or keep on stocking new games for retro-customers are being shafted every day! For some reason again, with this twisted logic, people have so much due care when it comes to Sega, but when if comes to everyone else, they don't have the same rights! This is almost something that goes against what most of the free world holds important!!! (Everyone is equal and has equal rights).
