Think of who you're hurting before you consider piracy.

magnetosphere, 9 months ago

I don’t pirate indie games, small-budget movies, or music from unknown bands. I hurt major corporations specifically.

bennieandthez, 9 months ago

Indie games are better these days anyways. I just use AAA games as performance benchmarks lmao.

HawlSera, 9 months ago

Is it really a victimless crime to go to archive.org and download yourself a copy of the never before released yet still fully completed Thrill Kill for PlayStation? Of course not, you need to think twice about the company that canceled the game and any bonuses the developers were promised, and didn’t even tell them about it, with the developers themselves having to learn about it from IGN.

Blastasaurus, 9 months ago

I just spent the night on my first emulator playing F-Zero Gx. I’m so sorry children :(

Octopus1348, 9 months ago

More like Nintendo

crackajack, 9 months ago

Never pirate from indie developers. But for giant companies, pirating is a drop in the bucket for their revenue.

cryostars, 9 months ago

Obligatory “but does piracy count as lost revenue?”

Anticorp, 9 months ago

Piracy probably generates more revenue than it destroys.

winterayars, 9 months ago

If it’s EA then “skimmed profits off the top of” is probably more accurate than “made”.

some_guy, 9 months ago

Odd contradiction. I support pirating when a person can’t access media legally (whether due to financials or just dick-moves by corps). However, this is the same logic that writers are striking against with streaming and I sure as hell support them.