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There's a little concept known as Intellectual Property that begs to differ
If someone steals my bike, I lose ownership of the bike, that's theft.
If I pirate a movie, Disney still owns the movie.
If I buy a game, I don't even own that copy of the game??
Here's my chance to shill for GOG in this thread! It feels nice to legally own a copy of Stardew Valley
In my opinion, theft is a bit more nuanced than that. You pirating the game denies the producers of the game the profit they would have otherwise derived from you purchasing the game
no because otherwise I simply wouldn't have bought it
That's why it's called piracy, not theft.
And when you call it piracy, some turbo nerds come out of the woodwork to claim it's not piracy because piracy implies theft
In the end, anyone who's not a low tier troll knows exactly the meaning of theft in the context of content creation.
Y'all can cope all you want, but there's a reason a lof of folks feel guilty when pirating indie games, and i bet that's because deep down they know that ultimately, piracy is wrong. They just shift the goalposts when it comes to corporations
My favorite take in this thread was a guy saying that two months after release all the artists etc are paid off therefore piracy is ok lmao
I wonder where the money to pay them off came from since everyone was performing the morally correct action of piracy🤔
When people hear the concept of thought crimes described to them, they rightfully recoil in disgust at that kind of dystopic idea. However, euphemize the concept as intellectual property, and for some reason, most people are fine with it.
IP theft isn't a thought crime, though.
No idea what point buddy was tryna pass across there
I have no idea what a "though crime" is, but if your intent is to antagonise IP laws then you're probably not a very creative person
They likely meant "thought crimes"
IP isn't a thought crime though