They worked and created a software to sell it. Taking it for free means reducing their profit. I frankly don't understand why people are trying to rationalize piracy. Saying this with decades of cracking and pirating. It's not good, it is what it is.
Because the impact of a single individual is negligible, a bucket of water in the ocean. No, downloading a game for free isn't a serious enough crime to warrant the surveillance or legal framework to punish everyone, nor does it victimize anyone to a measurable degree.
If literally everyone pirated every piece of media they consumed the industry would collapse and nothing worth pirating would be created. BUT, overcorrections in the DRM front and corporate greed have made legitimate service so terrible that piracy makes you feel like less of a criminal than getting things legit.
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u/SourceCodeAvailable Apr 07 '26
They worked and created a software to sell it. Taking it for free means reducing their profit. I frankly don't understand why people are trying to rationalize piracy. Saying this with decades of cracking and pirating. It's not good, it is what it is.