Hi guys, first of all, I fully support Piracy. But Im writing a piece on my blog about what I might considere as “Ethical Piracy” and I would like to hear your concepts of it.

Basically my line is if I have the capacity of paying for something and is more convinient that pirating, ill pay. It happens to me a lot when I wanna watch a movie with my boyfriend. I like original audio, but he likes dub, so instead of scrapping through the web looking for a dub, I just select the language on the streaming platform. That is convinient to me.

In what situations do you think is not OK to pirate something? And where is 100 justified and everybody should sail the seas instead?

I would like to hear you.

  • milkytoast@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    if you owned a game but your license got pulled for no reason (assassin’s creed)

    although pirating triple a titles is always ethical imo, devs usually get paid the same no matter how the game does

    also pirating to try a game. steams 2 hour refund policy isnt enough, as 2 hours often is not enough to get into a game and see if u like it

    pirating retro games
    if the only way to play a game legitimately is to pay $500 for a cartridge, it’s ok to pirate

    if you can’t afford a game (ex. low income countries), it’s ok to pirate. there are places where a full months salary isn’t enough for a single triple a titile

    • hoodatninja@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      if you owned a game but your license got pulled for no reason (assassin’s creed)

      I’m not quite sure what you mean. So you paid for it (not a physical copy I’m assuming) and when you woke up one day they took it away and you’d have had to pay again to get it? Just understanding what happened here.