• @PineRune
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    322 days ago

    Stealing implies a transfer of ownership. Downloading a “COPY” of a digital game only infringes on a copyright or licence or whatever the multi-million dollar company wants to claim it has.

    If you don’t own the game by purchasing it, then it’s not stealing if you pirate it.

      • @[email protected]
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        11 day ago

        For real, though. Pirate all you want, but enough with the ignorant platitudes. For fucks sake.

    • MudMan
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      12 days ago

      I am, again, mostly fine with that.

      As long as that means you don’t pirate anything that has a physical version or is on GOG.

      I mean, that’s not entirely true, my views on piracy are more nuanced than that, but in terms of how much I can stand behind that line as an argument.

      • @RightHandOfIkaros
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        42 days ago

        I am mostly fine with that.

        As long as that means the games I buy physical are still manufactured and sold by the publisher and not Joe Bloe on eBay for a 900% “rare retro game” mark-up.

        • MudMan
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          12 days ago

          Yeah, see, that’s why my take on piracy is more nuanced than that.

          Copyright is weird and broken, digital commerce is weird and broken and certainly the retro physical games market is weird and broken. There are ways in which that slogan works and ways it breaks, both in the direction of being pro and anti-piracy.

          But that’s a legitimately tough conversation with a ton of nuance and big implications that goes way past the other “Epic bad” nonsense.