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Don't let the corporations tell you otherwise (lemmy.ohaa.xyz)
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[–] -2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

The copyright troll known as "publisher" just will pocket all money you think you paid to people who made the game.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Option one: pay for game, some money goes to publisher, some goes to creators

    Option two: pirate game, no money goes to anyone

    Which one helps the creators?

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Option three: Donate to creator or buy something directly from them to help offset the cost of pirating.

    Pirates: Nah I'm good fam. I just want free shit because I'm too poor and don't get paid enough.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (2 children)

    A donation or purchasing something else doesn't legally or morally entitle you to owning an unrelated product made by the creator though...

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I disagree. Consumer gets game, creator gets paid. Seems pretty cut and dried to me.

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  • [–] -1 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Unless the creator gives you their approval, it's a donation that you can't assume gives you the right to their product.

    It's funny the mental gymnastic you guys will do to justify your choices and make you feel like you're morally right.

    By the way, I don't believe for one second that you've sent donations to all the creators of which you've pirated content.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    You're equating the law with morality. They differ sometimes.

    And yes, personally as soon as I had the money I purchased (or rather leased) everything I pirated and used past a standard trial period. Except for a few indie albums whose creators I couldn't find. Except for age of empires, now I think if it. I'll go buy it tonight.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    Even from a moral point of view, would you work for your employer if they told you "You won't get a salary but I promise that when things are financially better in a few years I will pay you back!" and a fairly substantial % of employers would do that but in the end only a minority would keep their promise?

    Sounds nice, right?

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  • [–] -2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    it's immoral to prevent people from sharing tools or stories or songs or skills. i'm entitled to enjoy whatever someone wants to share with me.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    No you're not if it's infringing on someone's copyright and you would agree with me if you ever created something you were trying to sell to make a living.

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  • [–] -2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    copyright is an immoral government-enforced monopoly.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Immoral?

    How do creatives make money if everyone is free to copy their work?

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  • [–] -2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    by selling it or taking commissions.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    They're already doing it, you keep saying it's ok not to compensate them for their work and to simply share it by copying the files without any involvement with the original creator.

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  • [–] -2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    yes. this isn't a contradiction at all.

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  • [–] -1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    some goes to creators

    You wish. https://dashfight.com/news/modus-games-lays-off-mane-6-developers-4490

    Which one helps the creators?

    Let's ask them

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    You realize that the developers all got paid before the game was even released, right? They were getting paychecks the whole time.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    Game wasn't complete.

    For downvoters here: they still did not deliver everything that was promised during crowdfunding campaign. And with scale of layoffs I'm not sure they can.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    So I hope you check beforehand if that's actually the case for the specific product you pirate. What I am seeing is that people just pirate everything because they do not respect the creators. From digital art, to indie works in movies, games and music. People pirate because they have the deeply capitalist mindset that if you can pay less (or nothing) for something you should. Even if that means the person that put in the labour and skills has less because of your behaviour.

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