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Sorry but no, you are part of the social contract, as it doesn't require you to "sign" it. It's not that kind of contract. It's the set of expectations you ha

Sorry but no, you are part of the social contract, as it doesn't require you to "sign" it. It's not that kind of contract. It's the set of expectations you have for the people around you to behave in a way that's conducive to interaction, and in exchange you are expected to act in kind. When you pirated those works, you committed an immoral act, as the owner of the work did not give you permission to access those works. Broke students don't get to play games for free just because they want to. You're not entitled to whatever you want, especially when the alternative is that you are in no way harmed. You would have survived, thrived even, if you didn't have those games.

orwin 3y ago
When you talk about the work owner, are you talking about the buyer who released it with the crack, or are you talking about the work producer? Because I had the permission from the first, and a bit earlier when I bought oblivion in a second hand game store, the work producer didn't gave me permission either.
- WendyTheWillow 3y ago
  You most certainly did not have permission from the owner of the work to freely distribute the work you paid for.
  - orwin 3y ago
    I did not distribute it. It was the height of megaupload. I don't think I ever torrented anything. Also, I just thought about it, I'm on a plex server owned by a college friend since 2017, did I broke the social contract by uploading my CDs on it? Or by listening to CDs my friend group put on it. Let's be honest, it's mostly my CDs, I have a truly huge collection, but it was also music we got from the school's nfs, on /share/music. Did that broke the social contract too? Knowing that we have a law that tax every sales of storage, even reconditioned HDD or smartphones.
    - WendyTheWillow 3y ago
      Probably? It's not really scalable for me to answer every person's individual questions about how copyright infringement works.
      - orwin 3y ago
        Because it isn't infringement. We pay to make copies. Even people who only stream music are paying to make copies. 20% of storage space's price is given to Universal and their friends.
        WendyTheWillow 3y ago
        ...what? This isn't related to anything either you or I have said in this thread.
        justinclift 3y ago
        Huh? You really can't see it?

orwin 3y ago

When you talk about the work owner, are you talking about the buyer who released it with the crack, or are you talking about the work producer? Because I had the permission from the first, and a bit earlier when I bought oblivion in a second hand game store, the work producer didn't gave me permission either.

WendyTheWillow 3y ago
You most certainly did not have permission from the owner of the work to freely distribute the work you paid for.
- orwin 3y ago
  I did not distribute it. It was the height of megaupload. I don't think I ever torrented anything. Also, I just thought about it, I'm on a plex server owned by a college friend since 2017, did I broke the social contract by uploading my CDs on it? Or by listening to CDs my friend group put on it. Let's be honest, it's mostly my CDs, I have a truly huge collection, but it was also music we got from the school's nfs, on /share/music. Did that broke the social contract too? Knowing that we have a law that tax every sales of storage, even reconditioned HDD or smartphones.
  - WendyTheWillow 3y ago
    Probably? It's not really scalable for me to answer every person's individual questions about how copyright infringement works.
    - orwin 3y ago
      Because it isn't infringement. We pay to make copies. Even people who only stream music are paying to make copies. 20% of storage space's price is given to Universal and their friends.
      - WendyTheWillow 3y ago
        ...what? This isn't related to anything either you or I have said in this thread.
        justinclift 3y ago
        Huh? You really can't see it?