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Pluralistic: "If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing" (pluralistic.net)
submitted 11 months ago by kpw@kbin.social to c/technology@lemmy.world
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The ability to change features, prices, and availability of things you've already paid for is a powerful temptation to corporations.

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[–] psud@aussie.zone 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It's probably worth pirating games just to test play them before buying the good ones for online play

[–] Huschke@lemmy.world 14 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It's also great to check if my aging pc is even capable of running it somewhat smoothly.

[–] Rubennaatje@feddit.nl -1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

You can just return steam games within 2 hrs tho

[–] Huschke@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

True, which again brings us back to "piracy is a service problem" which imho it totally is. I never pirate steam games.

[–] gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 11 months ago

Not all games are on Steam