If buying is owning, then filesharing still isn’t stealing 🤷
If I rob your house and take your computer, you no longer have a computer. If I copy a file you have, you still have the original file. Now you could still call it harmful, so there’s already word you can use! It’s called Piracy.
The devs don’t really care, usually. It’s the publishers that hate this.
I actually hope people do pirate the software I write for a living. I just have bosses because we live in a stupid economy with imaginary property. Most of my labor is stolen anyways, I just want it to help more people.
Yes. Thank you.
It’s the publishers.
It’s not pirating or stealing. It’s gathering data for AI development.
I remember growing up, piracy was the only way I could experience certain games when my old ass computer could actually handle it. Nowadays I do my best to pay for everything I consume and enjoy, content creators and all.
I don’t think I would have the tastes or beliefs I do today if I never did it.
Movie companies too
Though you still have patent nonsense, so only AV1 Opus is actually free media
That’s why they don’t call it stealing but copyright infringement or EULA violation.
That’s enemy talk.
They steal our freedom to buy the product.
How is it an EULA violation if I never agreed to it when I didn’t purchase it?
Not you, but the person making the game available through unofficial channels.
For a EULA to be “valid”, and oh boy am I using valid very loosely, it needs to be agreed before purchase and stipulates that its valid if you purchase the “product”. As I did not purchase it, how is the EULA valid to me?
Then it’s copyright infringement or anti-circumvention. It’s all just bundled up in the tent of piracy to preserve rent extraction.
Game publishers, but yeah
AAA publishers.
