It's not theft though, never was. Wasn't even a crime until a few years ago.
this post was submitted on 21 Feb 2024
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Well, since Pirates copy rather than take, surely they're creating value everytime they make a copy of something (were you had one, now you have two), unless that something had no value to begin with.
Be a a Pirate: It's good for the Economy!
I pirate because I like it when I have movie and money at the same time
it doesn't matter why you're doing the moral and correct thing, only that you do it.
...I mean...PIRACY IS WRONG AND IMORAL!
Partially.
The avoiding payments is immoral. The owning what you copied part not.
If I can download a game or a movie and then watch it offline without the possibility that the company I bought it from deletes it at any time from my hard drive then I would pay for such a service.
Steam is close but in theory they can delete your game once they decide that you shouldn't have access to that game anymore.
I'm just poor.
Thinking of all the shit I buy from the money I did not spent, because I chose to sail the 7 seas instead.
Its not theft its copyright infringement
I'm also a digital theft enjoyer. Unless I have to jump through fucking tons of hoops to watch some movies or tv shows, in those cases I happily pay the streaming service (if it's not in streamio, that is). The waste of time is not worth it, and I care more about convenience.
I pirate games because the idea of a poor, overworked developer go homeless gets me hard.
Bender knows what's up: https://youtu.be/hRy3MPdV0WE
Stealing is after all one of the worst and coolest of crimes: https://youtu.be/ELcMcmiv3j8
That and of course my friend Baxter here.
I just like training AI.
Kinda. I'm terrified how everyone seems to be in favour of having significantly stricter copyright protections because of scary AI.