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Coming from 10+ years in the game industry, articles on the benefits of software piracy are very rarely written by people who make the software that is being pi
by yodon 8y ago
Coming from 10+ years in the game industry, articles on the benefits of software piracy are very rarely written by people who make the software that is being pirated. Those articles are more commonly written by people who like benefiting from the use of pirated software and want to justify their actions. I get it, you like getting free software and movies. Don't forget that you are quite literally taking the fruits of someone else's labors for free, labors that if you had done yourself as a business you would not feel it would be cool for others to take from you for free.
- abc-xyz 8y agoI have seen my paid Unity plugin pop up on torrent sites like kickasstorrents, x1337x.ws, etc. It didn't affect my feelings towards piracy at all. Throughout my life, myself and the people I've been surrounded with, have always been too young to pay for content in the first place, or mixed piracy with various forms of contributions (word of mouth, online discussions, previously/later paid, bundled into subscription services, or consumed in other legal manners.. the work I pirated and never contributed to (other than momentarily increasing the seed count) is work that I would've never paid for in the first place). I think people blame piracy because they don't understand the benefits, or because it's so easy to blame piracy as opposed to admitting shortcomings with regard to the quality of the work and/or poor marketing.
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