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Yeah but for software you want it to work and sometimes need help, when you steal that software you are often on your own. In open source, there is nearly always an open alternative that comes with community support!
I mean, the only time I've used official support for some software was when I was having a license issue with Windows. Everything else has been solvable using the open internet.
The reason why I don't pirate software anymore is you have no idea if the people who cracked it added malware or not and it's, IMO, a perfect way to deliver malware.
Fair point, that is my fear too. I run Ubuntu so nearly all my software is open source already and for the slim number of tools that aren't in just pay for them because they are good enough to warrant it imo.
I abuse free trial and surprisingly it works really well
Most of the time, the tools I use to pirate are open source themselves so that isn't really a problem for me.
I don't mean the distribution tools like bittorrent etc have malware. If you pirate games or software, you run binaries provided by the people that cracked it, which don't tend to be open source. At least they weren't back when I was consuming them.
I mean I used tools like UltimMC to get around having to make a minecraft account. UltimMC doesn't provide the games themselves, that is downloaded from mojang's website, UltimMC simply provides a way to get around basic DRM.