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i was unaware torrenting copyrighted content was made legal, thanks for the update
by john_strinlai 5mo ago
i was unaware torrenting copyrighted content was made legal, thanks for the update
- sapphicsnail 5mo agoI think their point was that lots of media is easily piratable but still makes money and companies continue to produce more of it.
- trinsic2 5mo agoYep another lost soul at the parent that thinks piracy equals death.
- john_strinlai 5mo agothat is not what i think.
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- b65e8bee43c2ed0 5mo ago>they sound great in theory, but in practice exactly one person will buy the game that cost millions to produce, put it up on a website for free, and then the studio will say "well, never doing that again".
- john_strinlai 5mo agoyes, i wrote that. right now that would be illegal to do in most jurisdictions.
- b65e8bee43c2ed0 5mo agodespite that, people have been doing that for over two decades, but publishers continue to publish.
- john_strinlai 5mo agoright. that is because most people would rather buy the game than take the risk of downloading it illegally. if you remove the risk, the math changes. publishers also have legal recourse. remove that and the publisher's math changes.
- b65e8bee43c2ed0 5mo agopeople pay for convenience. when was the last time you heard about someone being prosecuted for pirating something?
- tmtvl 5mo agoJust yesterday when I saw the Leonhart French video about the NVIDIA piracy case.