How does pirating make a corporation broke? Making a copy doesn’t steal money.
Edit: We can’t pirate a company into bankruptcy.
I have an automated setup that can torrent the same game 100000 times so I can make corporations go broke at the click of a button. Fear me
We can’t pirate a company into bankruptcy because there are still people paying for the movies and games we download. If everyone pirated content, these companies would go bankrupt, and there would no longer be new content to pirate. Online pirates often justify their behavior by telling themselves a story about how they’re ‘sticking it to the man,’ but in reality, we’re just freeriders enjoying the fruits of others’ labor. We’re leeches with no moral ground to stand on.
You didn’t pay up to enjoy the product. They lost revenue. But yes, it didn’t “broke” the corporation.
They lost revenue
They lost HYPOTHETICAL revenue. Assuming that everyone who pirates a product would otherwise buy it is a textbook appeal to probability fallacy
Unless “piracy” is your alternative to buying a brand new copy at launch, I don’t wanna hear it.
If GameStop can make bank re-selling used games without giving back a cent to the developer, how is doing the same for free, without taking up competitive retail space any worse?
In fact, you’re helping them promote their stuff. E.g. everyone is watching that TV show and it’s all your friends are talking about. Now you have to do it too.
If instead of pirating you’d be like “I think it’s extremely expensive to pay a subscription fee for this low tier content, so instead I’ve been reading X”. Maybe you’d convice someone to join you. But for now you’re just reinforcing the media monopoly.
So now i should stop doing everything involving a digital subscription that’s fun just to stick it to the corpos? I don’t know if I’m misunderstanding your argument
You want to portrait yourself as an anti-corpo warrior. But all you’re doing is making corpo content a mainstream monopoly, and through that they will eventually find a way to make someone pay for it.
You will only make corpos go broke if you actually spend some money on alternative content. Meaning that content will get better, and there will be some follower base to enjoy that content with.
How are you this naive? You know someone has to pay the developers a salary right? How would corporations pay them if nobody bought the game and instead pirated?
They’re paid a salary as the game development goes on?
EDIT: I was confused
This is definitely some “I’m a 14 year-old edge lord” content right here
I pirate because it’s too much hassle otherwise.
I’m not sure what is with all the recent gatekeeping and glamourisation I am seeing around pirating, just seed your torrent and go bro.
Oh how I wish it worked like that.
