• GrammarPolice@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    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

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        3 months ago

        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.

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          3 months ago

          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

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            3 months ago

            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

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              3 months ago

              I wonder where the money to pay them off came from since everyone was performing the morally correct action of piracy🤔