• pineapple@lemmy.ml
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    1 hour ago

    I don’t follow this as a justification for piracy. Piracy isn’t stealing but, assuming if it was not possible to pirate you were going to pay for the game, you are still causing the person who owns the game to lose money they would have otherwise gained.

    My justification is much simpler: capitalists suck, buying games supports capitalists so I’m keeping my money.

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    6 minutes ago

    I don’t really care if it is stealing. Steal all you want. The random dude making the modern day equivalent of a flash game is certainly not counting on game sales to make ends meet, and the corporations can get fucked and die.

    :)

  • adam_y@lemmy.world
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    2 hours ago

    Bold statement. Never seen this one before.

    You come up with this yourself?

    Also, you might want to check the wording. It should be “buying games” not “paying for” them.

    The reason being that you can rent games, which is not buying them but still falls under an agreed usage and doesn’t really justify piracy.

    Similarly you pay for a game at the arcade but that doesn’t mean you are justified in stealing it because you don’t own it.

    So, I’m going to give this meme 3/10.