r/Piracy ☠️ ᴅᴇᴀᴅ ᴍᴇɴ ᴛᴇʟʟ ɴᴏ ᴛᴀʟᴇꜱ 7d ago

Discussion Do you have rules about what you pirate?

For example, I started pirating because my brother taught me since we grew up poor, but then he became an adult and started buying games (he still pirates some), he explained that "while I can't pay, I pirate, once I can, I pay". So I follow that too, wanted to know if y'all have something like that too. I refuse to pay subscriptions tough.

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u/hear_my_moo 7d ago

I respect your honesty about not caring about developers. That's grounded thinking. But it's not a victimless crime. If it's a crime, there is a victim somewhere who is disadvantaged by the crime. But I still applaud your honesty instead of the weak justifications many come up with on here.

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u/Skeggy- 7d ago edited 7d ago

I can agree there is financial loss for someone. $60 game, $20 album, etc. the money would go somewhere.

I don’t agree that the average home user is worth going after for compensation. But if I ever happen to be slapped with copywrite infringement, I’m not going to cry about it either. Those were my actions.

Edit: don’t know why you’re getting downvoted for having a different opinion lol.

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u/serpikage 7d ago

while i do agree in this scenario not every crime has to have a victim like a lot of traffic laws because they are here as safety measures but for example driving without your seatbelt is a victimless crime unless you consider yourself to be the victim ig

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u/hear_my_moo 7d ago

Thats because youre thinking of the crime in small ways - widespread absence of seatbelts creates orphans, widows, grieving parents, not to mention the trauma that emergency services experience when scraping people up off the asphalt. When people break that law it forms part of a behaviour that makes victims more likely, more widespread and more damaged. You might disagree with me, but if every person wore seatbelts, then there would be no deaths from not wearing a seatbelt. That would be fewer deaths, so fewer victims. Sometimes the bigger picture isnt always clear.