Anyway, Nintendo and Xbox have colossal fortunes; I don’t think pirating one of their games is going to bankrupt them.
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.
assuming if it was not possible to pirate you were going to pay for the game
That’s not a reasonable assumption at all.
Sometimes people can’t afford the extortionate game prices and thus wouldn’t be bying them no matter what.
Other times, such as with the Denuvo DRM monstrosity or draconian anticheat systems on single player modes, pirated copies are better than bought ones.
And, as you say yourself, sometimes you just don’t want to support the capitalists ruining games in order to squeeze every possible cent of profit out of them regardless of what that means for the quality of games and treatment of gamers.
If you want to play a game - pay the owner.
If you can’t afford it - don’t pirate it. It’s not yours.
Personally, If its not possible to pirate something I just forget about it until it is
Piracy is stealing and stealing is good.
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.
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.
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!!
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.
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.
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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?
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.
