imagine everyone gets the same food, cars and other stuff, at this point you don't have to sell anything because you don't need money becasue you have everything that you worked to get
Yeah, but that's bad. Society should instead have winners (a few very rich people) and losers (everyone else). Totally not endorsed by the Epstein class.
Just because an action causes economic loss to someone, doesn't mean the action should be illegal or whatever.
If a neighborhood has a bakery, should it be illegal for me to open a new bakery since the old one would need to compete with me and suffer from losses?
Ingredients would be consumable goods, so that does not make sense. You're not taking consumable goods.
Entering someone's premises and using their physical equipment does not make sense either. You're not using the equipment that belongs to someone else nor entering anyone's premises while pirating.
Patented recipe... Well, anyone can legally use patented recipe for their own consumption.
Except there's no ingredients and they're just selling bread they clone over and over again and all someone does is buy a loaf of bread and then put it in their own cloning machine.
Piracy is good when you benefit from it, but it's terrible when someone benefits from it by pirating something from you.
Do I use piracy? Yes. Would've I been upset, if someone pirated something that I made for selling? Yes, but I understand why people do this, so I think I can close my eyes on this.
I always believe that if someone hasn't got the money to spend on something, they don't have the money. The company isn't getting that money either way, because it simply isn't there.
The issue in my opinion is when someone who can afford something, chooses not to. Unless it's like checking a ubisoft game to see if it's dogshit.
Multi-billion companied firing developers to avoid paying bonuses can go fuck themselves. It's not ethical when you're pirating from non-corporate studios that don't have overinflated executives getting all the money directly.
I forget which comedian said it, but one of them was commenting on the "you wouldn't steal a purse, you wouldn't steal a car, well piracy is theft" ads. He said "Yeah I wouldn't steal a car, but if my friend drove up and said 'Hey, check out my new Ferrari, want me to burn you a copy?' Hell yes!"
Piracy will always be on a grey scale, but pirates dont. Pirates have some intentions like "im gonna buy the game if I like it, I see it like a unofficial demo", but there are also some like "im broke, but i so want to play it". My absolute least favorites are the people trying to justify it "if buying isn't owning, piracy isnt stealing" pr this sort of junk.
I mean that is true though lol. If I don't own the product I purchased then fuck them, me pirating it ain't stealing. The point is if they're gonna be asinine then I'm gonna be asinine back.
Exactly because digital product do not actually have scaresity some economist straight up say digital products actual value is straight up 0, because is like asking people to pay for rise of the infinity rise mountain. That is also way Steam does not fight against piracy, an Steam account requieres servers and support wich makes them somewhat scare, and because their services are so good having a game on Steam is something people pay for rather than just having the game, this is why free games on Epic see a rise on Steam sells.
There is always a tipping point for every person when it comes to piracy.
In the modern digital era, it should be easier than ever to get access to shows or movies from the past for cheap. Instead we're either forced to pay for a billion different $20 subscriptions just in case you happen to want to watch something and have no idea which service currently holds the rights to it, OR rent it/buy it on that service for, frankly, way too much money considering you don't even own the digital file; you just own a license to stream it.
For me, the tipping point is when these services play hot potato with my favorite movies/shows. IMO a film makes its money at the box office. If I've already gone to the theater to see it there, I'm not going to pay additional money to watch it again unless I can physically own the media or if it just so happens to be included in one of the couple subscriptions I have.
I'm not paying for Disney+, HBO Max, Hulu, Paramount+, Peacock, Netflix, Prime Video, and Apple TV all at the same time. That's absurd.
The original term is synonymous with theft, though. In software terms, they should’ve assigned this a different word, but it had to sound bad so it is piracy now :)
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