No.91657
Not in the slightest.
No.91658
Capitalist copyrightkikes get the rope.
No.91662
It's not theft when you are taking something that is freely reproducible with virtually no time or effort involved. Plenty of people are willing to finance the production of new electronic media as evidenced by crowdfunding platforms, too, so "piracy" isn't remotely affecting anything meaningful.
No.91663
Creating software is labor, but software isn't a product. Since physical media is no longer a practical necessity, software is intrinsically a service. So even if it's in the most kiked manner possible, modern companies are being a lot more honest when they say that they're only giving you a license to play their games, as opposed to you actually buying anything. When you pay for digital media, you do so to support the on-going efforts of its creator, but you're not actually paying for an existing product. When you pirate software you aren't stealing anything, because there is nothing to steal. In practice it means you don't care enough about continued support or new software from said creator. Even if you did care, if it's evident they're already making a lot of money then why would you feel obligated to chip in? At the end of the day, the people making digital media are practically pan-handlers. Even major studios are no better than a youtuber begging for super-chats. The difference is they're supported by a legal apparatus and have a lot more unwarranted indignation.
