Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ
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Using commercial software without paying for it is, in general, stealing.
But here are a bunch of things that are not stealing:
- Using commercial software on a country other than where it was made available for sale
- Using commercial software after the vendor no longer wants you to
- Using commercial software in ways the vendor doesn't like, such as on a device the vendor doesn't approve of
- Using commercial software on multiple devices, provided you use it on only one of them at a time
- Making a backup copy of commercial software so you don't lose it if the original copy is lost
- Giving others a copy of commercial software that is no longer available for sale
- Modifying commercial software to make it more enjoyable, such as by removing user-hostile misfeatures
- Reverse engineering commercial software to learn how it works
Note that several of these items (such as cracking cheat protection in a multiplayer game) enable you to use commercial software in a way that unfairly harms others (such as cheating in a multiplayer game). That's not stealing, but it is wrong in other ways.
Its still not theft by legal means.
I’m just here to see where everyone else is placed on the chart.
The way I see it is that piracy IS stealing. Not of the digital items but of the income that they potentially would have had. But I just don't give a fuck
I'm sorry, but I read your comment and didn't find it interesting. I'll have to sue you for the incredible things that I could've potentially done in these 10 seconds you stole from me, like buying a winning lottery ticket. ^/s^
In that way, taxes can steal income from me that I potentially would've had if they didn't exist, and if I could then spend that income on another service now the taxes stole it from that service
"Potential" revenue is completely bullshit.
I potentially have 20 billions of income but my greedy employer doesn't pay it to me!
Thats not how shit works.
Based