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[–] SynAck@corteximplant.com 1 points 8 months ago

@KravenTheHunter @trackcharlie plus, it gives them a reason to justify the higher prices because they have to be protected from all those big, bad pirates out there taking food out of their kids mouths by not paying their extortionary rental fees.

They're actually counting on people to pirate stuff to create some weird sense of inflated value for their products.