>>47343>stealing and piracy are different thingsEh, in some technical sense, but you're splitting hairs. What's happening in both cases is that a transaction is being circumvented; In the case of theft, a thief is doing so because they want the goods, but are unwilling to make a legal transaction to attain those goods, and is resorting to taking them from another person, who presumably made that legal transaction. The victim loses out of both the currency they spent on the goods in question and the time it took to earn that currency, as well as the goods themselves.
Piracy, on the other hand, is the circumvention of a legal transaction to attain a license for use of a good (or service), by procuring a 1:1 duplication of the good or service in question, thereby attaining an unauthorized copy. The end result is that the vendor of said good is not monetarily compensated for the use of the good or service in question, which constitutes a loss of revenue.
In both cases, there is a tangible loss and a tangible gain by the victims of theft and piracy, irrespective of whether you think either of them is bad.
>That's simply false, you used to be buying a physical copy of the software on a disc, much like you would buy a physical bookYou're mistaken; when you purchase a book, you do not claim ownership of the work in question, merely the parchment upon which it was printed. In the same way, you claim no ownership of a physical video game, just a personal, non-transferable, non-commercial, license to consume it.
>we should support digital piracyI support piracy, but you can't just dismiss that piracy is still illegal. If you want a legal solution, the so-called limp NFT variant scheme is a marginally effective proposal with little downsides. Make an actual objection of said proposal on some practical basis, why don't you. In other words, piracy is only a viable alternative for those who have no qualms about bending the law. I understand that many people don't care, myself included, but you can't assume that everyone is going to adhere to your sense of morality. I am not a moralfag in this regard, but any proposed solution to the digital only fuckery should presumably operate within the confines of the law.
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