![]() ![]() I try to make similar points at times, though I'm usually talking about writing and content creation and I'm a woman and a writer and poor, so people feel pretty free to be openly dismissive and disrespectful and act like my expectation that I should somehow be able to support myself if I am doing good work is a laughably stupid expectation and, at the same time, I'm an extremist nutter if I start using phrases like "that amounts to an expectation of slave labor." If you oppose intellectual property rights, it's important to work productively towards creating a world without it in which developers can work on a piece of software as their job and still have a livelihood, not joke about them not standing to lose anything through piracy. I'm not saying you don't do this, I'm well aware of your contributions to open source, for example. Sure, maybe the developer doesn't have an abstract right against copying the game, and it is true that they have not lost copies of the game when it is copied. What's it's critical of is the blithe way in which people dismiss concerns with statements like "no one has lost anything". ![]() My comment isn't intended to be positive or negative on the whole towards piracy (I do sometimes pirate things). The intern no longer has enough money to feed their family, and their children go hungry that month. Because of the unexpected lack of sales, the developer has to fire the intern. Suddenly the console becomes possible to emulate, and most of the people who would have bought the game play a cracked and pirated version on an emulator instead. They release a game developed together for a console. Suppose an indie developer working alone hires an intern. No one has lost anything when a game is copied.
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