Nowadays, the absolute vast majority of games that I play are shit tbh.

This is why I pirate games first to try them out. I wanna be very clear that if I think a game is good I buy it, no questions asked.

However, since most games don’t have demos or trials, I don’t want to feel like I’ve wasted money so I look to piracy so that I can try them out before making a purchase.

AITAH?

  • Lettuce eat lettuce
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    The results of your ideas are real, the outcomes and impacts are real. The mental labor you do is valuable, but none of it is “property.”

    If your thoughts and ideas and concepts are property that can be stolen, then please explain how you can be deprived of them.

    Thinking hard about something is labor, but it’s not property, it can’t possibly be property, because it lacks all of the aspects typically required to define property.

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        IP laws are not the only way to ensure a creator is compensated for their work. Money isn’t the only possible compensation, and modern IP law doesn’t protect most small time creators. It protects mega-corps and their monopolies on content/products/services.

        It stifles competition and progress, not enhances it.

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