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My controversial opinion is, that everything that cannot be bought for reasonable amount of money, also cannot be "pirated" (the act of copying should not be co
by ajsnigrutin 5y ago
My controversial opinion is, that everything that cannot be bought for reasonable amount of money, also cannot be "pirated" (the act of copying should not be considered as illegal piracy).
The main reason why piracy is illegal is, that studios/producers/writers lose money, because people pirate instead of buy. If I cannot buy eg. Super Mario 64 from nintendo in my country, and if I copy the game (and emulate it or whatever), I never actually caused any monetary loss for Nintendo by doing that.
- flatearth22 5y ago
- bricemo 5y agoYou can still buy Super Mario 64. It’s part of the paid subscription virtual console service on Nintendo Switch
- ajsnigrutin 5y agoSo, no copying SuperMario64 then. But my opinion stands for things that are not available this way.
- bottled_poe 5y agoFor a long time Super Mario 64 was not available this way, but now is. How to handle this case? It’s a hell of a lot easier to just have a time duration of copyright expiry.
- antiterra 5y agoIf someone sells nude photographs of themselves to a rich person for $1 million, does that mean you deserve to have them for free?
- dmatech 5y agoUnder current law, you absolutely can get them for free after the copyright expires (if copies are still around). And you can make as many copies as you want.
- ajsnigrutin 5y agoIf you already saw them... and had a chance to photocopy them... why not? How much money did the artist/model lose by you doing that (assuming a normal person would never pay 1 mio for that)?