Do you consider internet piracy a sin? Y/n?
Thou shalt not steal refers to subsistence farmers on the brink of poverty who have to save money for months to buy so much as a farm tool. The context is very different here where some modern middle class creates entertainment under the assumption they will get paid and another modern middle class consooms it without doing so. It is a luxury, it is people squabbling over a small proportion of the enormous abundance in which they live.>Y/n?Y. It is still a sin, but it is not the "stealing" persay due to virtual lack of consequences, it is more a sin against yourself. There is surely something better you could do with your time, there is surely some problem in your life you can fix or some project you could be working on than trying to avoid paying for slop.
>>18119563It's at least hypocritical. The best answer is to not patronize dogshit products/corporations whatsoever, not even by way of theft. Theft tacitly says you approve of the product.
>>18119628For example, pirating Adobe only proves to Adobe that there is demand for their product. Use FOSS alternatives.
>>18119626>persay
i prefer not to, as companies do need money to function and keep producing the stuff i want, but i'm not against pirating things either, just depends on how much i care about it.
>>18119563No I unironically consider it a virtue while buying games is an act of evil. It is fundamentally immoral for someone to give money to someone else richer than him as it perpetuates inequality. When you buy a game from a studio the actual developers don't see any of the profits. They get paid a fix salary regardless of how much the game makes. The majority of the actual profits goes to shareholders of the publisher/studio/platform etc. The only time you can buy a game morally is from self-published indie devs provided they are not super popular already.
>>18119563No. Intellectual property is not a legitimate form of property rights. Ideas are not scarce and therefore cannot be owned. All culture, art, and entertainment is necessarily in the public domain and any cost to access culture as such is just jewish rent-seeking behavior.
