Comment on Can't play an EA game via geforce now
0000@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Piracy is completely justified.
Hot take:
Piracy is virtually always justified. By pirating you are simply opting out of transferring wealth from consumer to big business which could be seen as a redistribution of wealth (however small) from rich to poor.
Exceptions would be indie Devs or filmmakers for which you would have more disposable income to support if you saved your money by pirating big budget films/games/software.
Hot take:
Shoplifting is virtually always justified. By shoplifting you are simply opting out of transferring wealth from consumer to big business which could be seen as a redistribution of wealth (however small) from rich to poor.
Sliding is actually stealing. You’re taking something away from the vendor. Piracy doesn’t actually take anything physically from the vendor.
Besides, if I can’t actually buy it (only a license to use it), then it’s not possible to steal it.
The mental gymnastics people use to excuse themselves of their entitlement continues to amaze me.
From poor to rich*
Yes, this is the big picture view of things.
Unfortunately, a lot of small-minds can’t (or don’t want to) comprehend it.
Piracy is never justified. The solution is to not buy or use games from EA if anything.
Piracy is justified if it’s to run abandonware, a broken DRM protection scheme blocking legitimate users from playing what they paid for, and for historical purposes (archiving, etc).
If you don’t own the software when you buy it, it’s not stealing to pirate it.
That’s not true in the least. The smart move is to use alternative software.
Lol yes, except when you can’t. How do you find an alternate game? If EA owns the rights they own it there is no alternative. For Photoshop, Microsoft office, etc, I get it.
In our society piracy is always justified
Fuck every last one of these corporations
How so? You are supporting them buy using there software.
*their
But it doesn’t support them when they don’t see income from it. You don’t even register as a number on their side, likely
Not paying them means you are not supporting them
I bet you watch ads, too.
Not OP, but I typically only pirate games if they’re unavailable for purchase in a more legal way. Like PS2 games, for example.
Most of the modern games I buy these days are from developers I genuinely want to support and see more from, like Atlus or Vanillaware.
Well no, I just stay away from proprietary software. For the internet I use ublock origin.
Courageous to make such a comment on Lemmy, where the community will bend over backwards to justify piracy.
☠️ ☠️ ☠️ ☠️ that’s right me mateys, being a pirate is lame and you should definitely…… nottttttt do it………….
Good thing I have this eye patch so I can wink without anyone seeing.
Kbobabob@lemmy.world 10 months ago
How would that help in this case?
argarath@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Not having to deal with EA’s bullshit
splicerslicer@lemmy.world 10 months ago
OP said they don’t have a gaming PC, meaning something capable of playing games at full spec
voracitude@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Pffft, just download some more RAM. You’d download a car, wouldn’t you? 😂
zakobjoa@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Just go into your local electronics store and pirate a gaming PC.
argarath@lemmy.world 10 months ago
True, yeah
TBi@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I bought a gaming PC because I was so sick of stuff like this on GeForce now. Great service but implementation was annoying.
Also ended up sailing the high seas for some games instead of purchasing. Although a lot I did purchase after but some like Unravel have too much DRM content that I bought but never used the legit version.
SendMePhotos@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Pirate the hardware. Yo ho…
Hjalamanger@feddit.nu 10 months ago
Just bring out your ship and set sail!