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[-] dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works 1 points 8 months ago

No matter how bad something is or how little someone else paid for it, neither you nor anyone else is entitled to any product free of charge. Period. Whether you indirectly help sales or you don't, it's a shit perspective to take.

Yes I sail the seas every now and again and yes companies are shitty, but there's no inherent high ground to be found in taking something without paying for it.

[-] rdri@lemmy.world 0 points 8 months ago

Well sorry, if I know the company will treat me and my PC as shit for buying their product, I'd rather consider using other party's services a way to go.

I directly helped with bug reports (that were indeed used to fix stuff) on several products I didn't own. You can also teach Minecraft's creator how indirect help of pirates is a shit perspective I guess.

Also no. Bytes can't be taken, only copied. As I said, physical world rules don't really work here. You can copy as much as you want without doing any harm, and someone might even thank you later for preserving some work of art that was mistreated or abandoned by its original distributors.

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