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lemmeee@sh.itjust.works 6 months agoYou seem to have trouble understanding the fact that people can buy things and share them with those who can’t.
I’ve already given you an example of the game Mindustry, which people buy on Steam (16k reviews): store.steampowered.com/app/1127400/Mindustry, even though it’s released under a free software license and you can get it for free on Itch: anuke.itch.io/mindustry and you can get its source code on GitHub: github.com/Anuken/Mindustry.
The only reason why the industry is surviving is because most people understand that they need to pay for the entertainment they consume.
Weird, huh? For some reason the internet and Bittorrent hasn’t changed that.
platypus_plumba@lemmy.world 6 months ago
yeha, piracy isn’t buying things. You keep bringing up that ultra specific scenario, again using a specific scenario to defend something more general. Do you think piracy is about buying things and then sharing? No. It is about buying something once and distributing it massively to millions of people. And for some it is about just downloading something for free, even if they don’t know who shared it with them.