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.
Piracy is stealing and stealing is good.
- To take illegally, or without the owner’s permission, something owned by someone else without intending to return it.
It’s hard for me to say weather this definition encompasses piracy or not. Although I would err to the side of piracy not being stealing, since media isn’t physical.
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.
:)
Watching indie devs make 500k off of flash games 😅
And that’s fine because the assumption behind “Indie” is they did all the hardwork themselves without getting paid regularly. Consider 500k is not a lot if you count how many months of work was put into the games without pay.
We’re not mad about them hitting the nat 20 😂 we’re mad it was assumed they made zero money so it doesn’t matter if we pirate from them lol hungry devs needa eat fat cat Microsoft can suffer the thousand cuts lol
yeah my position is to be very clear that we are not against making money but about unsatiable greed shown from the likes of ubisoft or microslop.
I used to be philosophically anti-piracy in principle, and would often argue online against people who posted disingenuous or self-serving justifications for their actions. But these days the amount of piss-taking by the publishers has destroyed my resolve.
Yarrr.
Orrr
Just get games with a free software license.
Then you both own it and did not pay. :)
Better for security too. A game is a full program and can do basically anything on your computer. I don’t even trust games from legit sources to run on my main OS. So if you pirate a game at the very least run it in a VM.
… a better “both ways” you can have.
fun fact, pirating the game means you actually own it I have repacked drm free pirated versions of games I own just in case i lose access to them or they get shut down
I am just paying a different entity that provides the same “service” for cheaper at the cost of my sense of security.
I used to have a hard time sharing the things I bought with the piracy community
It just felt wrong to give things away to people who hadn’t paid a thing. I felt like I was hurting the creators who actually put in the work
But then I realized I was guarding something that wasn’t even mine, all I bought was a license that could be revoked at any time… it never truly belonged to me
I was just being selfish. Now every now and then I make sure to share the content I purchase
Anyway, Nintendo and Xbox have colossal fortunes; I don’t think pirating one of their games is going to bankrupt them.
All games are technically licensed or something like that. I can’t remember precisely how, but software is licensed and pirating is considered “breach of contract”, not stealing. You shouldn’t take my word for it because idk what I’m talking about. All I know is rich people hate it, so fuck’em!!
Pirating is copyright infringement. In other words, you infringed on the rights of the copyright owner to dictate how their “copy” is used. In this case, the term “copy” is being used as in “collection of writing”, not the common colloquial synonym for “duplicate” - copyright was invented before video games, after all ;)
So in other words: no it’s never been theft
So in other words: no it’s never been theft
Yes. It was (and is) the other kind of legal offence. A copyright infringement, as you described exhaustively.
No, i legitimately bought it. You saying “it’s actually merely a usage license” is not my concern, yell at the shop that sold it with some fineprint somewhere.
conceptually how can i violate a license i’m not party to? (idk what i’m talking about either but i like pretending)
Because use of the product comes with an agreement.
And no, you can’t “la-la-la, I’m not listening to this agreement, I’m not seeing it” your way out of it.
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It’s 2026 and it’s the first time you seen this meme?
They’re being sarky
nah I didn’t make the meme, and I find it hilarious when people try to nitpick memes as if they were some philosophical treatises
It’s also funny when they’re nitpicked, even with overt hostility, only in the OP post, not the repost.
it’s like there’s a personal axe to grind 🤣
😂
Oh I just fell for it.
you must be that greedy little pig that thinks piracy reduces “potential” sales and hence “potential” profit. If you crave for what is not rightfully yours you are a sinner.
If you crave for what is not rightfully yours you are a sinner.
Are you talking about pirates and people, who use their work?
I am speaking about those who project their profits
