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piracy is not stealing. the potential profit that they could have had is just potential, not actual, so you don't steal money. You also do not steal the game si

piracy is not stealing. the potential profit that they could have had is just potential, not actual, so you don't steal money. You also do not steal the game since the game is still owned by nintendo/others. Please don't accuse users of doing something they don't do. Also, this lawsuit is not against users, it's against an emulator creator, they didn't still nor pirate the nintendo content (it can be debatable if they had access to proprietary nintendo code and the emulator was written based on that code, but if not we can for sure say that they do not infringe nintendo's copyright)

NlightNFotis 3y ago
Piracy *is* stealing. Sure, you may not have taken away money from Nintendo’s bank account by coercion/force/whatever, but the company and its employees have partaken into an effort to produce something of obvious value to you, for which they are asking for compensation for you to be able to enjoy, and you’re choosing to skirt this understanding so that you can enjoy their work without compensating them for it. Yeah, you didn’t steal money - you stole their work. Understand that you’re not entitled to other people’s work, regardless of what they’re asking for it. If you don’t enjoy their stipulations for it, like the hardware they limit their software to run, you’re free to not transact, not steal the work.
- bdhcuidbebe 3y ago
  No, piracy is piracy, thats why we use that specific word.
  - aurareturn 3y ago
    Pirates steal. That’s why they call them pirates.
    - ambichook 3y ago
      yarrr pirates stole. clicky clacky pirates pirate
    - Moldoteck 3y ago
      software piracy means "the unauthorized use or reproduction of another's work.". It doesn't mention stealing. Stealing have a different meaning
    - bdhcuidbebe 3y ago
      yea. and copyright lawyers used this word piracy to confuse people
- Moldoteck 3y ago
  Again, it's not stealing if you look at the definition of word stealing. There's a reason it's called piracy not stealing. You are not stealing what those people/company have (the product is still their, the result of their work is still their), you can't steal what they don't have(potential money). It's not stealing per definition. You still may consider this legal/not legal/moral/immoral and it's ok, each can have their own opinion on this topic and there are different laws in different countries but using word 'stealing' is not correct

NlightNFotis 3y ago

Piracy *is* stealing. Sure, you may not have taken away money from Nintendo’s bank account by coercion/force/whatever, but the company and its employees have partaken into an effort to produce something of obvious value to you, for which they are asking for compensation for you to be able to enjoy, and you’re choosing to skirt this understanding so that you can enjoy their work without compensating them for it. Yeah, you didn’t steal money - you stole their work. Understand that you’re not entitled to other people’s work, regardless of what they’re asking for it. If you don’t enjoy their stipulations for it, like the hardware they limit their software to run, you’re free to not transact, not steal the work.

bdhcuidbebe 3y ago
No, piracy is piracy, thats why we use that specific word.
- aurareturn 3y ago
  Pirates steal. That’s why they call them pirates.
  - ambichook 3y ago
    yarrr pirates stole. clicky clacky pirates pirate
  - Moldoteck 3y ago
    software piracy means "the unauthorized use or reproduction of another's work.". It doesn't mention stealing. Stealing have a different meaning
  - bdhcuidbebe 3y ago
    yea. and copyright lawyers used this word piracy to confuse people
Moldoteck 3y ago
Again, it's not stealing if you look at the definition of word stealing. There's a reason it's called piracy not stealing. You are not stealing what those people/company have (the product is still their, the result of their work is still their), you can't steal what they don't have(potential money). It's not stealing per definition. You still may consider this legal/not legal/moral/immoral and it's ok, each can have their own opinion on this topic and there are different laws in different countries but using word 'stealing' is not correct